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How Leaders Make or Break Team Effectiveness

The Practical Leader

In Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman and his colleagues write, “In the last few decades much research has proven the superiority of group decision making over that of even the brightest individual in the group. There is one exception to this rule.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

A flight attendant’s response showed how management just didn’t get it, “We’re smiling in spite of the fact that we’re doing our job with fewer flight attendants, a system that often breaks down, and a product that’s deteriorated.” Brand management is an inside job.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Understanding Customer Perceptions of Value

The Practical Leader

Reinforcing this month’s four-part series of blog posts on The Three Rings of Perceived Value, here are key perspectives on using our customer perceptions of their reality with your product or service. "No It is always a utility, that is, what a product or service does for him." " "…Bain & Co.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Performing market assessments. Core Competencies.

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Author Interview: “The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and.

Persuasive Powerhouse

and Gretchen Johnson of Virtual Wordplay Marketing Communications for a few years, a caring and supportive group of individuals who have helped each other without reservation to be successful in business and in life. He was, and still is, my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator mentor as I was learning my way around that instrument.

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. I agree it is hard to confront your boss and it is even harder to go over your boss but it can hurt the organization and its productivity. We might simply vote without doing our homework first. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

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Five Must-Reads for Tackling Complex Problems

Harvard Business Review

It includes stock markets, economic cycles, wars, company fortunes, and career paths. Emotional Intelligence , by Daniel Goleman. Goleman, in contrast, is one of the first authors to peer through a physiological lens at the emotionality of our thinking.

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