Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Is it because of WHAT you do or is it because of WHY you do it? Over the past few weeks I’ve been asking clients and other professionals their “why.”

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. 2 43,900 26,300 471 Ken Blanchard Leadership Speaker, Leadership/Business Guru, and Author of over 50 books, including The One Minute Manager. Assisted here by Team LBJ. 13 10,300 817 Joseph J.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

They were continually improving as a team. Rafael Aguayo, Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality, Simon & Schuster, 1990, p. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. Continual improvement requires continual learning.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Culture Is the Way : How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence by Matt Mayberry (Wiley, 2023) Former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity. But you're ambitious.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2018

They need to develop managers and executives who lead with three core mental qualities: mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion. Martin's Press, 2018) So much of leadership is managing tensions. Dear Founder : Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business by Maynard Webb with Carlye Adler (St.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Anecdotally, that emphasis on finding purpose in our workplaces and in the companies we patronize — or as Simon Sinek might phrase it, starting with “why” — is redefining the way innovative companies like TOMS , Zappos , Whole Foods , and Google attract and retain talent. Leadership Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. New data shows that sustainability is an increasingly important factor in attracting and managing talent. He suggested teaming up with the nonprofit Oxfam''s stores across the UK to resell used clothing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

The findings , published in the Academy of Management Journal, show that family firms invest less in innovation than other firms (both public and private) that aren’t family-owned. Family firm owners can use their powerful shareholder positions to ensure that managers engage only in prudent investments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

To find out, I spoke to some of the most innovative leaders across key industries, from technology to consulting to manufacturing. ” Simon Mulcahy, Interim CEO at Salesforce, recommends an exercise he calls “flipping the binoculars around.” Here’s what they said. Seek out unfamiliarity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? And as computer technology simplifies and reduces transaction costs further, it is these other things that firms do uniquely well that will come more to the forefront.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

The experts — middle management, analysts, engineers, consultants — aren’t asked to provide a comprehensive view of possible futures and their probability of occurring. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. But the uncertainty of the future is no excuse for less rigor or clarity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020) Teaching by Heart summarizes the author’s key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. Complexity is in. Common sense no longer helps us connect the dots.

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