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Leaders Lessons from an Outward Bound Wilderness Instructor

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Mark Brown: Leaders in the outdoor leadership space are quite familiar with a wilderness ethic and organization called Leave No Trace. LNT has become the gold standard for organizations who operate in America’s backcountry environments. LNT asks that travelers respect not only the place, but the experience as well.

Kaizen 365
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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

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. Take these 5 steps to still present yourself as a professional, inspire confidence, and move forward productively. Communication. With Words. Inspiration.

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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. Global mindset is truly having the desire, knowledge, and skills to operate effectively in business today. It fills a strategic tactical need of operating in today’s business setting. The fact is, global business is the new norm.

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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. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. Whether a business sells autos, groceries, clothing, computers, bicycles, or raw materials to a manufacturer of industrial products, it wants to be the preferred provider of those products. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years. You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival.

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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

I once heard Tom Peters saying that if you are a business traveler, you learn the most not from the corporate executives but from the cab drivers. How can we help leaders deal with complexity and respond to it with ethical behavior? Linda Fisher Thornton , from Leading in Context offers Leading Ethically Through Complexity.