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David Wiener’s 40 Rules for Business, Management and the Rest of Life

Leading Blog

As I have matured and learned more about both business and life, I have become less economically fearful and defensive. Those qualities are to idiots what peanut butter on turkey is to rats. Rate your clients on three scales: quality of work, quality of relationship, and quality of prospects.

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First I Launched My Company And Then I Had To Start Learning About Managing A Product.

Strategy Driven

So after spending much of my 20s working in finance and real estate, and then going to business school, the right opportunity sat in front of me. That’s not a sign of weakness for a CEO, it’s a show of maturity. To some degree, I always knew I’d launch my own business. I just didn’t know which field of study the company would rest in.

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Shifting your Leadership as your Company Outgrows the Start-up Phase

Great Leadership By Dan

Leadership for the small-business owner (which usually deal with entrepreneurialism, sales, financing, and other basic management and business skills). From being action oriented to collaboration and quality decision making. Leadership for managers in big organizations. Apple, Wal-Mart, IBM, GE, etc…).

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

As these technologies mature at record-speed, they will only be as powerful as the training available to help employees understand how to deploy, use and manage them. What key competencies or qualities should leadership development programs possess to effectively address the glass ceiling and promote diversity within the leadership pipeline?

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

It’s a mature category that is still trying to figure itself out… Because it is so competitive, it really is about understanding who you are, what you stand for, and what you don’t.”. It made sense, because we looked at the competition as our well-financed enemy, and so there was no way we could win at the spending war,” says Bell. “So

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Chief Daddy Officer – Lessons on Parenting from a Wise CEO

Your Voice of Encouragement

Because, as Chris points out, your ultimate goal as a parent is to: “Raise a dependable, conscientious, reliable, trustworthy, sensible, self-sufficient, un-entitled, mature adult.” What does it take to produce the kind of grown-up who possesses all those desirable qualities?

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. Make investments toward quality controls. Continuous quality improvement plan is annually updated, with measurable goals. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated.