Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Know where to apply your energies and you’ll be working faster and more efficiently. John Durfee is a Gulf War veteran and the marketing manager for Airsplat, the nation’s largest retailer of Airsoft Guns including Spring Airsoft Rifles. The temperature is dropping quickly in the desert night.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 19, 2010

It’s the energy that drives you throughout the day. If you want to improve, seek out feedback from others, listen to what they say and take action. Breakfast: Some say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day; I agree. It’s the fuel that gets you going in the morning. You receive power from eating.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

He discusses succession planning in detail and provides structure and practice for reducing the risks of leadership failures and ensuring that new executives have the abilities, personalities and energy to match the business needs of the organization. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 6, 2009

Doing it once is one time too many. Good work: The familiar, useful, productive work you do and do well. Great work: The work that matters, inspires, stretches and provokes. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, managers who do not exude an all encompassing self-confidence, style, poise, and energy, in short, “executive presence,” are highly unlikely to make it to the corner office. I also like Daniel Pink, David Schwartz, and Seth Godin’s last book, Linchpin. Rich Gee 11.06.10

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Energy – Get them active, wake them up. at 9:50 AM Steve Jobs and Seth Godin are good examples of powerful presentations without using bullet points. This is key — most speakers just give info — you need to deliver action steps for success. Yell “Good Morning&# or get them to stretch. People LOVE stories. Unported License.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Just remember… Talk may be cheap, but it’s also priceless when it comes to building camaraderie, respect, energy – and yes, even love – throughout your workplace, in both good times and bad. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

s ecomagination campaign to promote energy efficient products.    Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.  .  As Tichy argues in his book, Leadership Engine , effective leaders have a teachable point of view that they share as a platform for action.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Seth Godin calls it shipping, Mike Myatt calls it being an actionable leadership, and I will call it “mouthless [.] Don’t tell me, show me…Don’t talk the talk, but walk the walk. Taking action always begings with one simple act – making a decision.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

And when I met with Jason to talk about what the average Director of Marketing in a giant accounting firm could do to make a difference, part of me was really skeptical that anything was really possible. Quite honestly, climate change is one of those issues that overwhelms me.

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Roundtable Talk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

After spending years running businesses and sales teams, I am of the firm view that the ability to achieve a target is a blend of a number of factors , a few of them being: the environment (market/economy, etc.), That’s a huge psychological difference that creates a different energy.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

While you’re competing to get more budget, headcount, resources for your team, the guy in marketing is doing the same. If he had put half the energy into building the right relationships, he probably could have gone on to become the CEO. As the saying goes, leadership is earned, not given.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

The parallels to business are likely obvious to you, but let's just complete the picture: Between the creation of a new idea and that idea becoming a new market reality, many different decisions and actions need to happen. Alignment matters because it decreases the amount of energy it takes to go from A to Z.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Just because it is going to take longer than it should doesn't mean we should walk away," wrote Seth Godin in one of the posts. That's how many people around the world live on about a dollar a day," Godin writes. We acknowledged that we didn't have the answers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The Energy Challenge. Today, Seth Godin examines the challenge of marketing to the world's poor. Its success will depend on the ability to create a market for the idea. Acumen creates these markets using patient capital. The $300 House: The Challenge. The Financial Challenge. The Design Challenge. Triple the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

One solution to this tension is to pursue what we call glocal advertising strategy — locally adapting a universally embraced core idea that will resonate in any market anywhere in the world.". The key question for global brands is, "How can marketers pull it off consistently?". It''s not easy to do, however.

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