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5 Bite-Sized Lessons From 5 Big Leaders
Making Goals and Objectives Work for You
When talking about business strategies, commentators often talk about goals, and occasionally mention objectives. These terms are, however, usually not clearly defined and very seldom is there a solid hierarchy or discernable relationship between them. In some cases they are used interchangeably. Unfortunately, the use of these terms in other fields and endeavors (like behavior…
8 Strategies for Remote Leadership
In a speech in January of 1977, the Twelfth President of the Mormon Church; Spencer W. Kimball said that “The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.” Among other things; he was talking about the criticality of being face-to-face with the people you lead to…
Leadership Lessons in Presenting an Oscar
Those of you who do not closely follow current culture, (or who may have spent the last weeks on a remote island somewhere) may not have heard that there was an incident at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony where the prize for the Best Picture was initially presented to the wrong team. According to news…
Hire “A” Players (and let the others go)
If your goal is to create an exceptional organization of engaged employees – to go out and win the championship – then you have to get one thing right: hiring. The good news is that most (if not all) of your competitors are getting it wrong. Mark Murphy, author of Hiring for Attitude tracked 20,000 new…
Why Do You Lead?
This post originally appeared at Leading With Mission. Born, Built or Appointed Why do you even want to be a leader? This leadership stuff is tough! There’s accountability for the organization’s success, responsibility for the human beings that follow you, scrutiny of everything you do and don’t do, criticism for well…everything and don’t get me…
The Challenge of the 7th Wave: Retention
Strategy and Risk in Business
Risk is an element of much of what we do in life and is usually considered to be a negative thing. This is also true of developing strategies for business, and many who develop these types of strategies firmly believe that one of their major goals should be to avoid or eliminate risk. That is…
Regarding Employee Engagement: “Do or do not. There is no try”
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