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Escaping the Change Management Trap: From Rigidity to Agility

The Practical Leader

.” Here’s what we’re seeing as the three vital leader shifts needed to deal with today’s seismic disruptions: Rigidity. Products and services pushed out to the market. Leaders are “servant-leaders” to highly engaged teams. Internal Focus. Customer Focus. Empowerment.

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

The Modern Servant Leader Servant Leadership & Technology. September 20, 2011 Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership Intro. Servant Leader Posts. If You Seek Prestige, Please Don’t Try To Lead… Servant Leadership Profile: Lionel Logue. Why Servant Leadership is the Future.

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How Wall Street Behaves Like a Toddler

Modern Servant Leader

Regardless, he resisted any attempt to go to bed. They’ll highlight that without such reaction to poor results, the markets would fail. I pray this changes and believe if anyone can be successful in driving such a swing, it will be our servant leaders. This quarter’s results are often all that matters.

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Questioning Questions

Strategy Driven

They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. These narrow the range of possible responses, often creating some form of resistance or defensive lies; they certainly cause defensiveness and distrust. What Is Change?

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The Skills of Kindness: a guide for sellers, coaches, leaders and facilitators

Strategy Driven

Cognitive Dissonance: When the content we share – words, questions, information, education, advice, written material – goes against someone’s (conscious or unconscious) personal beliefs and system of Self, we cause Cognitive Dissonance and resistance regardless of the efficacy of the information. often fall on deaf ears.

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Buying Decisions, Buying Decision Path, Buy Cycles, and Pre-Sales

Strategy Driven

In 1979 I became Rookie (stockbroker) of the Year at Merrill Lynch with 210 accounts (the market was 777). It includes people, systems, implementation, resistance, workarounds, relationships – and comes well before any decision is made to buy anything, and quite separate from any ‘need’. Otherwise, we close in half the time.).

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Sales, Marketing and Social Can Be More Successful: hint – it’s not about your content

Strategy Driven

Sales, marketing, and social marketing attempt to place solutions and create relationships by supplying great content, discovering likely prospects, and creating trust. Unfortunately sellers end up closing a small fraction – less than 5% – of those they reach, and marketers and social end up closing even less.

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