Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2019

The authors talk not only of the familiar product innovation but also America’s process innovation—innovation in management and organizing production. Entrepreneurs drawn from every level of society are the primary drivers of this creative destruction. But they are seldom the easiest of heroes, or the nicest.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2023 curated just for you. This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 3, 2024

Leadership development training days aren’t optional; They are essential for great teams. Engaging and effective leadership development days are a critical necessity for sustaining your organizational success and growing your people. Effective leadership training days can deliver a return on investment of $4 for every $1 spent!

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Y OU don’t have to be an entrepreneur to be an entrepreneurial leader. Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. Five Types of Leadership. The Administrator manages process with predictability and efficiency.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2021. The Power of Clarity : Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment by Ann Latham. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles. Trust is, however, an elusive, even mushy, concept.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2021

Let’s face it: everyone wants to be a ‘successful’ entrepreneur. The harsh reality is that few entrepreneurs become successful in their careers, irrespective of whether you use money or popularity as metrics to measure success. With that in mind, which qualities define a successful entrepreneur?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Welcome to the August 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Shelley Row of Insightful Leadership shared Staying Engaged with Virtual Teams.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

This is a guest post by Jonathan Moules author of The Rebel Entrepreneur. There is a dirty little secret that most famous entrepreneurs and those that back the start-up culture prefer not to tell you—success in business is a minority sport. One way to define them and their leadership is as rule breakers. Not a bit of it.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2020

They’re outstanding leaders in their own right, but both can be hit-or-miss when it comes to successfully managing teams. Team leaders are warned from day one: “No one likes to be micro-managed.” Rebecca and Jason heard this drumbeat loud and clear in the same management classes. People don’t want to be micro-managed.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Without a quality product, your brand will fall short of its true potential. Customers are quick to recommend a quality product when they find one, but they are also quick to leave bad reviews unless they are satisfied. To help to improve the quality of your products and services, focus on these five areas. Test your products.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2020

The answer is probably ‘yes’, and the most successful entrepreneurs know that. If you can continually pinpoint the weaknesses of your company and your leadership skills, then you’ll be able to continually develop solutions which improve your business. Could you be a better entrepreneur? Do your research.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 21, 2023

Management Transformed Managing in a Marathon Crisis Management Transformed: Managing in a Marathon Crisis is a CMI research project exploring the extraordinary challenges and new ways of working that emerged in 2020. In August 2020, CMI polled nearly 2,300 senior leaders, managers and employees.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure. As a consequence, the venture’s first product is likely to miss the mark.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The life of an entrepreneur is many things, but relaxed and leisurely it is not. Rarely do entrepreneurs get to enjoy downtime in the same way that their salaried peers do. Entrepreneurs exist in a constant state of self-improvement and self-development. Compose some thought leadership articles on LinkedIn.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In addition to entrepreneurship-specific careers, you may find jobs as research and development specialists, general managers, and sales representatives. You’ll learn about critical topics, including financial management, marketing, and business planning. But they need more than just a great product to succeed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2012

Charan, Drotter, and Noel wrote about six leadership passages in their classic book The Leadership Pipeline. However, they use the terms “leadership” and “management” interchangeably. What if we took a simplified version of the Pipeline model, and mash it with a distinction between leadership and management?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2019. Become : The 5 Commitments of Purposeful Leadership by Mark Hannum. Mark Hannum reveals the evidence-based secrets that surfaced from vast data Linkage has collected on leadership effectiveness. What has propelled their record streak of growth?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. As I wrote Building Blocks — Case Studies of a Serial Entrepreneur , I realized that over the years, I toiled with many of my failures, but I never analyzed the variables of the successes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 17, 2016

Now on to our topic for June: What tools do you use to stay productive? Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership has been tracking his productivity for around fifty years now. Productivity is never an accident. The other “tool” that helps stay productive: exercise–preferably a good hike in nature.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 16, 2023

Article: Loneliness – a new management phenomenon Written by Jess Stillman Tuesday 16 May 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email While remote working post-pandemic has boosted productivity, new CMI research finds more than half of UK managers struggle with loneliness.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Level 3 represents decisions that team members can make only after getting a thumbs-up from the rest of the team or management (or both). It’s also a great way to prepare people for leadership. Before he started Productive Flourishing, a national coaching and training company, he served as a joint force logistics officer in the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. Certain functional leadership positions, and industry sectors, can be less strident on this question.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

This year’s theme was Management: The Human Dimension. Leadership should shift from hierarchy to hustle. The CEO needs to take up the leadership challenge to help others respond to that. Management has maybe become too machine smitten. Many managers mix up formulating a strategy and developing a plan.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Creating world-class products and services is a discipline that some organizations seem to master, and others struggle to achieve. Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. Radhika’s experience building products in numerous industries is evident in every chapter. Radhika Dutt.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman on the importance of value: “All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.”.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

According to entrepreneur and author Margaret Hefferman , as reported a few years ago in Inc. magazine, the secrets of the most productive people are that they do these three things : They take breaks. Breaks refresh the mind and allow you to see new situations. They are great collaborators. They have lives outside work.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

As an entrepreneur, I have worked tirelessly to regain some semblance of comfort and financial security. You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. Very demanding unending responsibilities.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

Without defined processes, you can’t scale, you can’t put metrics and instrumentation in place, you can’t manage. And one just for would-be entrepreneurs: What’s Your Just Walk Out Technology? Not just with your product or service, but broadly and deeply. It extends to the delivery of the product. Remove Friction.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Boost your brand’s bottom line, boost your productivity and bring your business to another level. Here are some essential team building tips for every entrepreneur. It will also help if you put team members in leadership roles. Your team would eventually realize this and replicate your effort through increased productivity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2020

Now, the types of leadership qualities that show up on list after list are there for good reason. However, when you look closely, you discover that it becomes difficult to see empathy as anything other than essential for competent leadership. This is the power of empathy at work. The POWER of Empathy?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2021

According to entrepreneur and author Margaret Hefferman , as reported a few years ago in Inc. magazine, the secrets of the most productive people are that they do these three things : They take breaks. Breaks refresh the mind and allow you to see new situations. They are great collaborators. They have lives outside work.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

The company had been rolling out one product after another without any guiding rationale other than they were “innovative.” Nadella proposed that Microsoft move beyond its most profitable product, Windows, in favor of chasing a cloud dream, even though Amazon had a four-year head start. But there was much more than that.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2021

One of the most important aspects of business is management, yet this can be one of the most tricky and stressful responsibilities for entrepreneurs. Leadership isn’t a trait that comes naturally to everyone, and it may need to be worked on to succeed if you’re going to be undertaking a managerial role.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

I n today’s fast-paced world, time management has never been more challenging. Today’s most successful leaders have learned how to increase their effectiveness by managing their time effectively. Don’t Multitask – Effective leaders understand that multitasking reduces their productivity.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 10, 2023

Management knows they can’t do it all alone, so they empower others which boosts productivity, morale, and confidence. Gallup Study: Managers who excel in this skill generate 33% higher revenue. This is an important leadership decision. “If If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 1997 he was awarded an Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year. It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today.

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