January 2010
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Our Leadership and Business Management Heroes Inspire Us To Act
Leaders, those worthy of being our leaders anyway, always take the responsibility and privilege of leading us seriously. They understand that well led employees will follow them willingly in whatever direction they believe the organization should go so they feel an internal responsibility to live up to our trust in them. As followers we trust [...]
Follow These Rules of the Road As You Ramp Up For Growth
You are stranded on a desert island and you only have 30 seconds left on your cell phone battery — could your second-in-command back at your office tell you in those 30 seconds how well your company was running?
If you had your company focused on your key indicators, you would know immediately. Yet so many [...]
Become The Star You Are Meant To Be
You want more out of life than just a job. Whether you work for a large company, a startup, a nonprofit, or you are an entrepreneur, you want to be a star; a complete and total personal and professional success. But professional success is complicated and may be elusive. To achieve professional [...]
Zero in on Your Company’s Profit Zone and Zero in on Profits
Profitability. It’s the reality of keeping a business running and yet remains a mystery on so many levels to business owners. The concept that you have to bring in more money than you spend to make a profit is basic. Getting there is a science.
Think about specific activities in your company that help you make [...]
How to Use Feedback to Become a Top Performer
Global warming, political change and global economic implosion are taking their toll. There are few organisations that are not anticipating reduced demand for products, tighter budgets and focus on head count. As personal anxieties and social pressures increase, stress levels rise.
What can you do to ensure your survival?
You can be in the top 20% of [...]
10 Smart Moves a CEO Can Make Today to Stay Profitable
Anyone can run a company during good times. When you are making money, it’s easy to overlook some of the deeper issues that are lying beneath the surface just waiting for an excuse to move to the top of your company’s list of challenges and create havoc.
Paying attention, during good times and bad times, to [...]
To Learn from the Best, Watch Them While They Exceed the Competition
Competitive advantage is based not on doing what others already do well, but on doing what others cannot do well.
–John Kay
Most studies of competitive advantage begin more than 20 years after the leadership activity they want to measure. That’s like trying to measure the snow fall at the South Pole after the fact. It can’t [...]
