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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

LDRLB

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

Life and Work Experience Everything from first jobs to playing on sports teams to boy scouts give us real life experience and skills. Sam Walton learned his retail operational skills from Ben Franklin. Hiring Others Sam Walton used this tactic quite often. This teaches us about accountability and performance.

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Four Industries That Use the Situational Leadership® Methodology

The Center For Leadership Studies

They not only empower their teams to think creatively and be innovative, but they also actively encourage and support it. One of the best descriptions of that reality in professional sports was provided years ago by Bum Phillips. At the time, Coach Phillips was the head football coach for the Houston Oilers.

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The Limits Of Envisioning

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an approach that has received widespread acceptance in not only the sporting world but in other uncertain environments, such as public speaking or job interviews. The researchers explain that nearly half of those they spoke to for their research engaged in this tactic to try and improve their mood.

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4 Leadership Lessons We Can Learn From The Olympics

Tanveer Naseer

With the latest edition of the Summer Olympic Games now well under way in Rio, there is naturally much interest in the outcomes of various sporting events. One of the reasons for this is because unlike most other Olympic events, the athletes for this sport have to contend with the uncertainty of both water and wind conditions.