Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

In their book From Smart to Wise , Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou state that wise leadership succeeds where smart leadership cannot. Wise leadership isn’t about how smart you are. Importantly, “That perspective enables us to rein in our smartness and harness it to serve a larger purpose in an ethical and appropriate manner.”

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Leadership Training Programs Managers are leaders, albeit on a smaller scale than their employers. Managers also play a role in shaping future leaders so to help managers succeed, leadership training is important. This requires us to answer how HR can support managers as well, so let’s look at some ways to help managers succeed.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The sales team wants to know how the software will benefit their current customers and how they message it to new customers. The developers want specifics on how to develop every aspect of the new software application. The marketing team has a message they want to send about the new product. It’s more of an art than a science.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture? During our conversation it was evident that he is proud that SAS is developing software to solve problems in a broad range of fields. Education is another field he mentioned.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Reach your diversity goals. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. New graduates can likely help the company quickly improve its online presence or make more efficient use of existing software. Quality of Executive Leadership. Challenges of Hiring New Graduates.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The interviewer wants to know if the company or position is truly aligned with your career goals. The interviewer wants to know if the position connects with your passion, and how it’ll help you advance your career goals in a way that also benefits the team and the company. You must be prepared to flesh out your career goals.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2018

You’re not so much looking for the individual’s ethics or values here, but their capacity to form and deliver their point of view in a creative and compelling way. could have more honed in leadership skills than someone who didn’t. The ability to work in a team. Look for specialized degrees. Resilience.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

Autodesk’s software and applications became must-have tools for designers and manufacturers alike, thanks to Bartz’s insistence that the company methodically roll out new features based on customer feedback. Never discount your ability to make a major difference in your organization. This is the new corporate strategy for Yahoo.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you don’t think you have a mentor yet, try looking at others who’ve achieved their goals and see what they learned from their mentors. As a young girl, I watched his work ethic and success drive him in life and business,” said Sullivan, CEO of Marketing Solved. Whatever your protégé needs to succeed, of course.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

If you don’t think you have a mentor yet, try looking at others who’ve achieved their goals and see what they learned from their mentors. As a young girl, I watched his work ethic and success drive him in life and business,” said Sullivan, CEO of Marketing Solved. Whatever your protégé needs to succeed, of course.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. is a leadership, career, and marketing expert and coach.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

Reach your diversity goals. When companies hire fresh graduates, they’re more likely to attain their diversity goals. New graduates can likely help the company quickly improve its online presence or make more efficient use of existing software. Pew Research Center reports that recent graduates are more diverse than ever.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Brock is a Channel Partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, an executive leadership coach, servant leader, and a man of integrity. I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. As the great ethicist Dr. Larry Axline said, “Moral values in action is ethics.”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. Or take SAP, the German business software company. Scharffenberger had sold Hershey his eponymous ethical chocolate brand. Then, in 2007, something changed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Are they leaving goals — and wins — on the table? Being honest and never dissembling is very consistent with the bland axioms of a “feel good” leadership discourse, but as in the case of sports, it is also remarkably inconsistent with what actually goes on in the real world. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

A big goal requires a “thick we” network — a community of people who feel responsible for collaborating toward a shared purpose that they see as superseding their individual needs. The goal was to help one another get smarter, while collectively providing superior solutions for Pfizer. Informal leadership Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. The focus was on learning and adaptation — not on hitting performance goals. Instead, use the data to set learning goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly. In several survey studies, we demonstrated that when employees perceive their leaders as too ethically driven, they demonstrated the same negative behaviors that were shown when leaders were perceived as very unethical.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. Their goal is to make accounting, simple. Intuit is successful because they bring their ‘do less better’ cultural ethic to their customers. Intuit cuts through that complexity with software that simplifies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

When an executive at global services firm UBS Americas challenged trainees to design a cost-saving strategy, one young woman proposed that the company install software that puts a computer into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. Here are five practical approaches recommended by leading employers. Measure and improve over time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

The lean-startup software ethic of launching minimal viable products in order to fail fast and learn is a challenge in many businesses and especially in healthcare where no one wants a minimum viable pacemaker or “lightly tested” drug. Experimentation is vital.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Do we still take band-aid approaches (such as buying enterprise software)? How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? How far will we go to excel?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We just bought a piece of computer software. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Failing to make investments in future company success: I’m building a new house right now. Just took a vacation. Got to send the kid to college (or some other personal reason). We make a good product… that should be enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Data science and AI lie at the most overheated end of the software engineering spectrum, and there is a massive shortage of graduates and postgraduates emerging with the necessary skills. These are essential transformative skills, not just for those who may go on to become software engineers, but also for everyone.

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