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What’s the Secret to Strong Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

I’ve worked with every industry you can think of, as well as some industries you probably don’t know exist. Connection At its core, leadership isn’t about control, power, or a job title. Leadership is a relationship between two people. Communication and leadership are joined at the hip.

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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

A professional career as a business manager, regardless of size, scope, or industry, demands a certain set of skills, unlike many other job roles. With that being said, here is how to improve your managerial and leadership skills.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. Jeff Bezos.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios. The investment portfolio.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed.

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Become Businessperson of the Year

Harvard Business Review

And there were turnaround stars like Ford's Alan Mulally and industry superstars such as Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos. But the CEO who took first place this year was singled out for what seems to be an entirely new and noteworthy type of leadership. Yes, there were wunderkind founder-CEOs like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

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