General Leadership

MARCH 25, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire. Leadership is not about having the right answers, it is the ability to ask the correct questions. It is a compilation of lived and learned experiences, the experiential education which bounds your way of thinking and does not define a rulebook.

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Education Advice Learning-by-Doing Organization 290

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

Business leaders are communicators. Your words shape perceptions and influence opinions. Employees, customers, and shareholders look to you for information, as well as interpretation of what the facts mean for them. Your stakeholders seek clarity, completeness, and truth. Is that what you are providing? Consider these 12 points: Proximity: Are you viewing the scene from a helicopter or the ground?

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Media Report Video Article 189

Women on Business

MARCH 25, 2016

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 25, 2016

E very person is a leader. Or so I believe. We are all called to lead at least one person. That person? Ourself. The First Person You Lead. You may hear varying reports on how you become a leader. One thing is certain: The first person you lead must be yourself. It’s hard to lead others when you’re not leading yourself. This may sound odd, but it’s true.

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Mentor Follow-up Education Report 135

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 25, 2016

Your most powerful contributions are the answers you’ve found for yourself. A struggle answered is purpose found. Profundity is relative: What’s simple to you is profound to others.

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Power Succession Leadership Development Development 114

Coaching Tip

MARCH 25, 2016

. . . Poor meetings have many negative impacts for leaders and their organizations. The usual approaches have clearly not been robust enough or easy to adopt effectively. It’s time for a new approach based on what we’ve learned about group behavior and leadership. In Emergencies, Try This. How can you structure better meetings in challenging situations?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. It is also not news that diversifying leadership teams can pay financial dividends for corporations.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

You'll learn a lot about marketing from the book, Does it Work? , by Shane Atchison and Jason Burby. Most important, you'll discover their 10 principles for getting digital marketing right. What also really caught my attention was the book's discussion about the elements of good culture. Culture created from as high up in the organization as possible.

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Environment Marketing Books Team 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

A young man with cancer at our Silicon Valley firm requested additional sick time for post-cancer treatments and checkups. Another employee, one who had been born in Vietnam and came to this country with his parents, requested one day per month when he would work remotely. He would return to south central Los Angeles to work a double shift at his parents’ liquor store.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2016

After 20 years of working with corporations to build a more diverse and inclusive culture, authors Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan wrote, The Inclusion Dividend. Published in 2013, the book has become a must-read for business leaders who want to learn how investing in diversity and inclusion will pay dividends in: greater innovation higher productivity stronger client relationships a more engaged workforce Today, Donovan explains in his guest post below that there are four areas of competency that

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Organization Kaplan Diversity How To 50

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How To

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Searching for a small business to buy and run instead of taking a more traditional post-MBA job like consulting is an idea that we’re seeing catch on at top business schools. At the Harvard Business School, for example, the number of MBAs who decide to look for a business to acquire right after graduation has gone from less than a handful a decade ago to more than a dozen, and in an occasional year, twice that amount.

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leaderCommunicator

MARCH 25, 2016

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. As many of you know, each week I read and tweet several great articles and on Fridays, I pull some of my favorites together here on my blog.

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Leadership Mentor Blog Article 69

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

It’s a common refrain in executive suites these days: “We need a new narrative.” It’s not enough any more to say “we make widgets.” With changes happening so quickly from so many directions – competition, regulation, technology, talent, customer behavior – it’s easy for one’s story to become generic or outdated.

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How To Brand Retail PR 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Most of us don’t enjoy having difficult conversations, period — but when they involve someone from our own culture, we can usually rely on some basic shared assumptions about what the interaction should look like. When we have a difficult conversation with someone from a different culture, however, our task becomes harder by an order of magnitude.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

laura schneider FOR HBR. For the last 200 years, entrepreneurial prowess enabled by financial capital has powered a long surge of economic growth. Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Fi

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Mapping out all the steps a customer takes while interacting with your company is a powerful way to improve the experience. Customer journey maps clarify what customers are trying to do, what barriers they face, and how they feel during each interaction with your product or service. Refining these smaller steps, such as how people complete a purchase online or file a complaint, is what journey maps are known for.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

I could sense Jack’s frustration at the start of our call. He seemed particularly charged up about his colleague, Leslie, a peer who was overseeing a team that had interdependencies with his own team. They had been in a cross-functional team meeting earlier in the week when Leslie had shared a set of new parameters and next steps for working with one of their key vendors.

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Consensus Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming Process 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

As consumers, it’s easy to love the latest generation of tech startups. Uber reliably provides cheaper and more convenient rides. Airbnb is similarly alluring — lower prices for more space than most hotel rooms. Meanwhile, Zenefits modernizes human resources workflows with slick software to replace outdated paper. And Theranos’s advanced medical tests promise to reduce vials of blood draws with tiny thumb-pricks.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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