Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Having worked with more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors, hobbyists and side hustlers, they often struggle with when it is appropriate to leap from the job environment into the entrepreneurship maze. Most people see this dichotomy and feel that they need to choose one dream over the other.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Leadership infrastructure is every bit as real as roads and bridges, electrical grids, and the Internet.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

OCTOBER 19, 2012

As a business owner since 1982, I’ve learned an important truth: You need to be strong on the inside to make it as an entrepreneur. You can absorb enormous amounts of information about marketing, sales, leadership, and management to help you run your company. But applying this knowledge can be really challenging.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

It shares the ways in which we stand above the rest: Club Tattoo has redefined the luxury tattoo and piercing industry by creating a viable lifestyle that reaches a wide audience but maintains a core value system that is innovative and has set a new standard for the tattoo and piercing industry.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

.” Four Steps to Balancing Agile Leadership and Innovation Management Agile organizations are knowledge-creating cultures thriving on controlled chaos. The first two stages depend on people or leadership skills. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 28, 2009

John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership — does a masterful job of explaining the leadership principle of influence through the five myths about leadership: The Management Myth: Management focuses on maintaining systems and processes.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 18, 2014

Aaron is a globally recognized social entrepreneur and the CEO of Imperative , a technology platform that enables people to discover, connect and act on what gives them purpose in their work. The leadership imperative that comes out of the book, and why leaders can’t fake purpose. Leadership More Human Podcast'

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2021

Such an entrepreneur is open to infusing new talents, innovations and creativity into the business to strengthen it and guarantee its longevity. An Integrated Learning Systems (ILS) mindset growth arms the learning and development (L&D) department with accessible solutions for the evolving business operations.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

Every entrepreneur and business manager is constantly working to improve the efficiency of their business. Many entrepreneurs hold their business close to their heart, and they prefer to have a direct hand in everything involved with it. It is, therefore, essential to apply smart tactics to improve the efficiency of your business.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 1, 2015

As Fizzle CEO, Corbett Barr, told me: I stay productive by developing and maintaining what I call a personal “operating system”, which is a set of processes, tools and checkpoints that define how I get work done every day. The specifics of an operating system differ from person to person, but the important thing is that you have one.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

The Lean CEO : Leading the Way to World-Class Excellence by Jacob Stoller Lean is not just a manufacturing system. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. by Brad Lomenick Brad Lomenick reflects on his leadership journey in H3 Leadership. and Hustle (How will I get there)—he gives us 20 habits to build our leadership on.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2020

Guest post from Dr. Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” A heavy equipment manufacturer had a systemic struggle with underestimating project costs. That phrase is a misleading myth at best and actively dangerous at worst. Magazine, and CNBC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They will also acquire the essential skills required to establish, formulate and implement ways of electronic distribution, including the analysis and design of data information and E-Systems. Course instructions are offered in the following areas: Global leadership. Marketing management. Information systems. Accounting.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2014

Sales, marketing, and social marketing attempt to place solutions and create relationships by supplying great content, discovering likely prospects, and creating trust. I learned this as both a sales person and an entrepreneur. That way we got onto the Buying Decision Team early and became great relationship managers.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2021

One of the key elements of a product strategy is determining the product market and the needs that the product will meet. Entrepreneurs need to consider the business goals of this new product. With the help of a Quality Management System businesses can determine how to develop services and products.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2016

This is another installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership”. This excerpt tells two very contrasting stories about a job of leadership that is never, ever, easy – having to let people go. Why are you doing this – you don’t have a Marketing staff.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 12, 2021

Read this invaluable book if you are an entrepreneur or business owner preparing to sell your business. That is why it is important to AIM: Always Innovate and Market. I have always believed that all business owners and entrepreneurs should be thinking about an exit strategy from day one.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 24, 2013

In his book Nice Companies Finish First: Why Cutthroat Management is over—and Collaboration Is In , author Peter Shankman shows how famously nice executives, entrepreneurs, and companies are setting the standard for success in this new world. Take Mr. Shankman’s words to heart as you take your next product to market.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2021

Read this invaluable book if you are an entrepreneur or business owner preparing to sell your business. That is why it is important to AIM: Always Innovate and Market. I have always believed that all business owners and entrepreneurs should be thinking about an exit strategy from day one.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He is a co-author of The IMAGE/3000 Handbook, the reference work for the HP 3000 IMAGE database management system. Subsequently, he has been an angel investor, executive, marketer, coach and facilitator, always working with entrepreneurs to help them and their business grow to the next level.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

W E LIVE IN the age of the entrepreneur. DIY chain Lowe’s, for example, is building 3D printers that print in zero gravity, thus opening up entirely new markets for themselves. Learn more at sunordic.org. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Right now I am researching the first section of my new book “Dipping in the WELL: Women Executive Leadership Learning”. Related posts: Leadership and a Cup of Tea The next six weeks of winter are the challenging ones. Leadership Partnership and Business Possibilities Clearing out the old to make way for the new.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. But we know very few successful entrepreneurs who set out to start their business with the primary purpose of money. It’s more likely that they set out to meet an unmet need in the market.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2021

The appointment itself could be scheduled by an AI-driven system in much the same way that pharmacies use software to send automated calls and texts when a patient needs a refill. Entrepreneurs are creative innovators willing to think outside the box and attack a problem from a completely new point of view.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2021

Read this invaluable book if you are an entrepreneur or business owner preparing to sell your business. That is why it is important to AIM: Always Innovate and Market. I have always believed that all business owners and entrepreneurs should be thinking about an exit strategy from day one.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 1, 2012

Innovation starts with leadership. Leaders must encourage creativity and teamwork, as well as processes and systems that nurture the concepts and execute the results. Innovation was the way of the entrepreneur. One thing is certain; the place to start is the corporate culture. Most big company cultures are not innovative.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs willing to invest the time and effort into satisfying the most valuable component of their business are setting themselves up for long-term success. But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. A controversial finding from the study was that entrepreneurs had higher levels of testosterone than non-entrepreneurs.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2020

A simple system update notifications and alerts can get everyone distracted, thus wasting time and bringing down productivity. Make sure you do a thorough assessment of the system your employees are using. I find Star Wars, the American epic space-opera, entertaining yet full of leadership lessons. Appoint a Master Yoda.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2012

This month’s Fast Company names the 100 Most Creative People in Business, with an emphasis on global leaders in technology, design, media, music, movies, marketing, television and sports. The tendency in any organization is to look for the 5 steps to do anything and make a system. That’s not how to look at a competitive world.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It focuses on being evolutionary and growing with the employees and the particular market the business serves. . Most entrepreneurs have an ongoing list of things in their head that they should be working on. This is where technology can be hyper effective in automating systems of actions that a leader used to do.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 25, 2013

of the Oxford Princeton Program) in “The Corner Office” Compelling People Dave Kerpen HBR Huffington Post Hugh Martin (chief executive of Sensity Systems) in “The Corner Office” Inc. Bob''s blog entries "Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture" "How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s clear that in many cases, women are not just influencing the market; they are the market. In other words, women have been the market for some time now yet many executives have not taken action on this huge opportunity. So the shift in business from informing to communicating provides great opportunity for women leadership.

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