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Five Frequencies That Are Driving Your Culture (for better or worse)

Leading Blog

This can mean avoiding ethical shortcuts, hiring people smarter than you, delegating more, and helping prepare high performers for success beyond your team.”. They introduce the concept with a story: A traveler on an important journey comes to a raging river. Don’t push your people to the black market.”. Go long-term greedy.”

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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Marcella considers: “ Engage – travel guide for change adventurers, is a great book for anyone looking at organizational change. Shelley considers: “ For the companies, I work with, I know their 2020 visions also did not include anything remotely close to a cease to all travel, live events, and in-person meetings.

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4 Ways to a Better Bottom Line

Lead Change Blog

Even more, we have a moral and ethical business obligation to be savvy in how the world works. A global mindset is a critical skill parallel to legal, marketing, sales, or strategy. By cultivating a true global mindset, individuals working around the world will be able to: Assess new markets. Understand customer behavior.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. The principle then travels down through the various functions, and ends at sea level with an individual’s daily “to do list.” The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better.

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Featured Instigator: Eileen McDargh

Lead Change Blog

When asked about a subject that is not currently taught universally in school but should be, Eileen commented on the importance of education about ethics. And I would travel and produce a reality show called “Our World and Welcome to it” featuring all the GOOD things people are doing.” I’d play with children.

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6 Ways Green Businesses Make a Difference

Women on Business

Green is here to stay , and if you want your business to succeed in the 21st century, I believe that you must take steps to encourage your company to become more socially responsible, more ethical, more sustainably-minded (measurably so), and more focused on reducing, reusing, and recycling. Customers speak and big companies listen.

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Why I Love Starbucks.

Rich Gee Group

I’m regularly on the road to travel, meet new people, network, and bump into friends and colleagues. But you can’t argue that they have a compelling model that scared market leaders like McDonald’s and Dunkin Donuts to mimic a lot of their offerings. I run a 21st century business: I have a home office where I coach.

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