Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Many companies are skilled at delivering compelling training, but lack the resources or abilities to help their customers implement the training they have received. If possible the company or people responsible for the training should have a follow-up mechanism through which they can provide additional services and direction.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 12, 2009

If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest in yourself; after all, you –your skills, talent, abilities, etc. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. Nice quote!

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

This book is especially pertinent to those seeking to grow their leadership skills and capabilities, but feel they are so far behind that it’s not worth the effort to even try. I recommend you read this book to learn more about the science of future-based language; it will help you hone your skills as a forward-looking market expert.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 1, 2010

Core 3: Capabilities: Your capabilities are the abilities you have that inspire confidence — your talents, attitude, skills, knowledge and style. Trust grows when your motives are straight forward and based on mutual benefit — when you genuinely care not only for yourself, but also for the people you interact with, lead or serve.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And that means giving executives opportunities to take on greater responsibility, broaden their skills and cultivate a network of relationships with their peers. Broader Skills: Skilled people are driven to learn more about other parts of the organization. Leaders who understand this find ways broaden the skills of their teams.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Back in 1908, the Army learned of a clever engineer — Frederick Taylor , subsequently dubbed "the father of scientific management" — and his success in making steel manufacturing more productive in Pennsylvania. When Taylor agreed, they focused first on the big Watertown Arsenal, the least efficient and highest cost in the system.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Look for ways you can improve your skills in new areas. Don’t balk when things don’t go the way you want them to go. Get out of your comfort zone: Face it, progress never comes without some level of discomfort. Think of something you never would have considered and do it; even if it’s riding a bull.

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 26, 2010

However, Mr. Stoddard’s experience and frequent metaphors and parables provide readers with much to learn about improving their leadership skills. The book cites many references to the author’s company and consulting services, which at times seems more self-serving than helpful.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 8, 2009

The following five actions will help you increase your value and enhance your self-confidence: Improve skills and knowledge: Instead of hunkering down and running below the radar, take specific actions to improve your skills. Make an effort to learn new skills and practice them as much as you can in your current job. Read books.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 21, 2009

Their skills, knowledge, intellect, character and integrity provide the primary value to their company. Every positive outcome that transpires in any organization is a result of efforts of the people therein.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 14, 2010

Human Artist : This is about people skills , it’s about developing understanding of people you interact with. Build and Army : Leaders aren’t just good at doing their job, they help others grow and organize people’s skills to their command when necessary. “In social media, human is the new black.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

Their intellect—along with personality, skills, knowledge, character, integrity, and other things collectively referred to as “human life value”—create the true value in any organization. When you regard the people as the true assets of the company, and treat them accordingly, they will respond in ways that will surprise and delight you.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

I recently learned about a new System Design program at Cornell University structured to help you master the skills to take your products to a successful launch. What problems have you faced when trying to launch a new product? What effect did it have on the product launch?

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 11, 2009

Author and blogger Art Petty offers 8 suggestions to improve your team’s problem solving skills. Focus, instead on making a new world where the outsourced skill is irrelevant. The compelling saga drives performance, inspires value-based behavior and provides strategic focus. Ship the spec.

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2010

What is equally amazing is that is where much of the stuff is made too (so if their is pollution or a stretch in ethics of how something is made we might be able to turn a blind eye)! Often times where it ends up does not seem to matter that much to us, because it may be on another continent. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Home About the Blog Michael’s Bio Resources Lead on Purpose Entries RSS | Comments RSS Top Posts Lead on Purpose featured Five leadership practices for improving customer service Five factors of leadership Real-world examples of customer service Leadership and Product Management Five stages of problem solving Guest Post: The Yin-Yang of (..)

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

At the time our mission statement was, “ Anything for a buck, as long as it is legal and ethical. &# So we were paid to take a newsletter promotion Sid was doing for his business, we was a gifted writer (and a student of great copy writers), and attach a penny to each of the 18,000 newsletters. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Farkas, former chairman of giant mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, in April was found guilty for his role in one of the largest bank fraud schemes in American history. Many times, this desire is so strong that leaders breach the ethical standards that previously governed their conduct, which can be bizarre and even illegal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

As a professor of literature, I hadn’t known that a wide spectrum of professions was embracing storytelling as a uniquely powerful form of messaging, that they had discovered that far from being a soft, touchy-feely skill, storytelling was a powerful form of witchery. A great storyteller waves her pen over paper like a wand.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 17, 2009

If you compare the skill and precision of crop dusting to market sensing techniques, shouldn’t product management employ similar planning, preparation, techniques and proper ground support before taking off? Can you image the rush? What type of training and preparation does it take?

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CO2

JULY 11, 2012

Many contest entrants described how, in an effort to get unstuck, they developed new skills or discovered ones they weren’t aware existed. When I left my first husband, I had no job skills nor anything more than a high school degree. by Steven Taylor | Submitted Jun 28, 2012. Maria won by just 31 votes. 764 # Votes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

That may involve learning new skills, reprioritizing your tasks, or reevaluating how you come across to colleagues. Stephanie Barnes Taylor had recently transferred to the contracts division of a law firm in Atlanta. In college and law school, my work ethic and performance had always been excellent,” she says. “So

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

For example, consider how kids are currently interacting with AI and automated technologies: Right now, it might seem magical to tell Siri, “Show me photos of celebrities in orange dresses,” and see a photo of Taylor Swift pop up on a smartphone less than a second later. But it’s clearly not magic. This is where U.S.

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