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How To Help Your Team Think Like an Entrepreneur

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?”

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5 Authentic Ways to Gain Your Employees’ Respect

Lead from Within

By spelling out the word respect, we can use this framework to guide our actions and behaviors as we work to earn the respect of our team. E ncourage others: Encouraging and supporting your team members shows that you believe in them and value their contributions. P lay fair and smart: Fairness is a key component of respect.

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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause.

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From Words to Worth: Navigating the True North of Organizational Values

Mike Cardus

Work-culture research studies, including the comprehensive research by Guiso, L., Sapienza, P., & Zingales, L. Have team discussions to hear, discover, and collectively create values from people in the work-culture rather than imposing a set from the top. Core Values are wasted opportunities for teams & leaders.

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Consultants: Resistance Is Futile

N2Growth Blog

Over the years myself and my teams developed a set of running jokes when we knew a new engagement was imminent. The room erupts with cheers and ACME is once again hired to save the Corporate P&L. She simply delivers and her team consistently leads NIH in establishment of best practices and the creation of net new ideas.

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP is a broad term, and it applies to those who you might not have a positive perception of — including mobsters. We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them.

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The Evolving World of ROI for Learning and Development

Experience to Lead

However, the truth is that quantifying ROI in such a direct financial correlation leads to challenges for L&D professionals. Considering L&D professionals are working directly to upskill people whose minds are very complex systems, it is not a direct line from investment to financial gain.

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