Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Here are five great posts from the HR, talent management, and leadership development blogosphere to kick off your work week and help you Maximize Possibility in your organization.  Check out his post to learn more about the fundamentals of effective leadership. .  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  Enjoy!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. Soon enough, the remarkable generation of soldiers who have fought for America in the aftermath of 9/11 will also achieve positions and platforms from which they can share their hard-earned wisdom and insights. Thanks for reminding us all.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

I was amazed when more than 12,000 people applied for the 15 positions. Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Analyzing your content, keep in mind that when you present it to someone, they are in the position to remember the message, you, and the association between you and the message. We also seek hedonistic values because they evoke sensory pleasure, which is why we enjoy good hotels and fun nightclubs. for Canadian readers).

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How can you start each day being positive and ready to lead under these circumstances? I would say overall we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future. How could I refuse? About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

They don’t tell you how well the business is positioned for future growth and ROIC improvement. It took many years for the company to regain its lost position. For example, a hotel or restaurant chain might measure the average time between remodeling projects as an important driver of health.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

to read the complete article, please click here. * * * Leadership is a choice. Pure and simple When you assume a position of authority, either formally as a manager or informally as a team leader, you make the [.]. Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Baldoni and featured by CNN online.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. For each of our various stops along the way, we reserved a room at a Howard Johnson hotel. We knew that all across the country these hotels were decorated with exactly the same wall colors, lamps, and bedspreads.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Before I became general manager of The Beverly Hills Hotel, I held the same position at another luxury hotel up the coast. Facing interconnected operational issues, members of the eight-person senior leadership team were turning against one another. Later, he privately told me he was thinking of leaving the hotel.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This idea is supported by Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter, authority on leadership and change, who finds that in order to succeed, 75% of the company’s management, needs to ‘buy into’ the change. Pause to help gather thoughts, while enabling the audience to absorb the presentation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Company leaders have quoted and lauded Carr whenever they''ve needed to justify their hesitation to create strong, progressive IT positions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although the idea may sound far-fetched, not least because the automation of jobs is usually discussed vis-à-vis unskilled labor rather than management-level positions, it is actually more feasible than most people think. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In my consulting work with large, multinational companies, I see a pervasive anxiety among managers who have trouble finding people for skilled positions, no matter what industry or region. As a result, they tend to focus narrowly on technology skills, the Accenture survey reports. Mine the existing workforce for hidden talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ultimately, Accenture’s Disruptability Index positioned 20 industry sectors — and 98 segments within those sectors — against those two axes. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

And whether you’re in the culinary arts, book publishing or cloud technology, when you become an entrepreneur, work-life balance becomes a thing of the past. There’s a reason why many compare starting a technology company to having a baby. Walk Your Way to More Effective Leadership. How to Thrive While Leading a Family Business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

GV portfolio company Savioke found itself in this same situation: the team had spent months developing a delivery robot for hotels, but felt paralyzed by big questions about the robot’s personality and behavior. For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Often, in a desire to get the ball rolling or maybe because of the leadership's own imperfect understanding of their company's problems, jamming teams are often given broad, ill-defined problem statements. How does the word "flower" or its image relate to the brand positioning of an aluminum bottle.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Market Position: Contracts, licenses, legal monopolies, customer lists. The top two elements, market position and brand — with items like goodwill, customer lists, reputation and contracts — are largely a measure of how well companies are building trust with consumers and the wider community.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. By understanding what Disney did well that others did not, the team envisioned using technology to create personalized visits with less friction: no turnstiles, shorter waits, and less zigzagging through the park.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Narayana Murthy habitually pays the difference between a single and a double hotel room when he takes his wife on business trips. Taking tough decisions can have a surprisingly positive impact on the rest of the organization. Build a strong and committed top team. I got rid of two top people in the first three to four months.".

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