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What’s the Secret to Strong Leadership?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Alain Hunkins : Over the past two decades, I’ve worked with thousands of teams, and tens of thousands of leaders in twenty-five countries around the world. On the surface, each team and company’s situation and issues were unique. Great leaders operate using similar principles to guide their actions.

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Cohen Full Bio Leadership • Lifestyle • Media and Technology [link] Tony Murphy Hi Gary, I agree this RSA lecture and animation is really cool.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. The operative question for them is, not “How confident am I that this investment will yield a positive return?” All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. And that is part and parcel of professional life. So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often?

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The first approach requires the creation of an internal consultancy to the business units, asking them to identify needs or opportunities that your team should work on, and agreeing that at a certain point, you’ll hand over projects to them once they’re ready to move past the testing phase. Invest real money.

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How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

Harvard Business Review

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation.