Organizations run on the minute-by-minute, day-by-day decisions that your employees make at every level. Productivity and growth depend on the quality and speed of these decisions, made at the lowest level possible.
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
3 Ways to Help Your Employees Make Great Decisions
Organizations run on the minute-by-minute, day-by-day decisions that your employees make at every level. Productivity and growth depend on the quality and speed of these decisions, made at the lowest level possible.
This Girl Scout Is Selling Cookies to Stoned Customers
One Girl Scout is capitalizing on customers with the munchies. The Foster Buds dispensary reportedly allowed the scout to sell her cookies, while also offering a Girl Scout Cookie strain to (legally-aged) customers, the publication added.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
3 Ways to Instantly Elevate Your Leadership
Any type of growth takes time. Growing a body, a plant, a mind, a skillset, a home or your leadership. Patience and perseverance are your best friends when it comes to growth. There are not shortcuts to growth, but there are three things you can today to instantly elevate your leadership.
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Monday, March 28, 2016
Why Every Female Leader Should Be a Mentor
MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: How can more women leaders instill confidence in the workplace? is written by Perry Yeatman, CEO of Perry Yeatman Global Partners.
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Sunday, March 27, 2016
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
Are You A Courageous Leader?
As you build out your company, you invariably will add new employees and for some of you, you might be managing those employees for the first time. It is time for you to think about what leadership qualities you want to embrace.
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5 Things You Didn't Know Can Predict Your Career Success
What makes a person like Barack Obama or Bill Gates successful? What factors, what parts of them and of their environment, are the greatest predictors of their career success?
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Friday, March 25, 2016
7 Winning Leadership Ideas from Peyton Manning's Playbook
The best part of Peyton Manning's appearance at last week's Leadercast event was not his speech. It was something he said afterward, in his sit-down with host Bill Rancic.
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The One Leadership Quality Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Marc Benioff All Share
Long before Apple launched the iPhone and changed the world forever, it was a mission driven company. Every product that left its doors, while Steve Jobs was in charge, was the result of his mission to combine technology with beautiful design.
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The 5 Essential Qualities of a Great Leader
Being a good leader isn't easy. While a leader's actions may be scrutinized when things are going bad, it is their leadership qualities that shine through the worst of times. It is these same qualities that employees look up to, respect, and work very hard for.
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Leadership Lessons From Sports Legends
Sports are a huge part of American culture for many reasons. The drama, athleticism and personal story lines all make for a visual and emotional feast. Add some munchies, your beverage of choice and a halftime 3-on-3, and it’s no wonder sports sit at the center of American weekend festivities.
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
Richard Branson on Passionate Leadership
In the book The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership, entrepreneur Richard Branson describes his experience in building the Virgin Group, focusing on aspects like fun, creativity, and the lost art of actually listening.
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The Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Focus
It's so easy to lose focus, and become susceptible to being busy but not productive. Sometimes we miss deadlines and unfortunately we even put off important things and then we wonder where our concentration has gone.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
3 of the Most Highlighted Lines from Amy Poehler's Memoir
What can entrepreneurs learn from successful comedians like Amy Poehler? Quite a lot. Of course, you might be skeptical about the wisdom comedians have to offer. You might think their views of the world, especially as expressed in a memoir, are too frivolous.
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Eight Elements of Your Sales Structure That Can't Be Ignored If You Want Sustainable Growth
Sales is now in a state of transition. The massive shift away from field sales, as the primary driver of new revenue, has upended many of the conventional ways of doing things, and has left many sales organizations confused as to how to move forward.
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Why Half of the S&P 500 Companies Will Be Replaced in the Next Decade
The lifespan of large, successful companies has never been shorter. That's according to a new study of turnover in the S&P 500, conducted by the growth strategy consulting firm Innosight.
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The 4 Worst Kinds of Bosses to Work For (and How to Avoid Becoming Them)
Fact: most people have had at least one boss during their lifetime who was so bad that it made them question their entire career. Take that information and chew on it for a moment. Isn't it awful? I've been doing some reflecting on what makes a person suited for leadership roles large and small.
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10 Ways to Spot a Truly Exceptional Employee
A recent international study surveyed more than 500 business leaders and asked them what sets great employees apart. The researchers wanted to know why some people are more successful than others at work, and the answers were surprising; leaders chose "personality" as the leading reason.
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How to Instantly Have A Success Mindset
I've been waiting in the hotel lobby for 2 minutes. My temper begins to rise as I think, how inconsiderate of them to waste my time! But I catch myself. You can't lead successfully if you play the role of a victim. As a victim, you're disempowered and without control.
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The Parade of Horribles: 39 Simple Things That Can Destroy Any Company
There is really only one way to get rich if you weren't lucky enough to be born into money. You can't work for someone else. You have to launch your own business. Yet, the vast majority of new businesses ultimately fail. Fortunately, they generally fail for the same reasons.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
How to Be a Leader, Not a Manager
Let's get something straight: manager and leader are not synonymous terms. Manage implies maintaining the status quo. It's a manager's job to ensure that things go as planned and that the team meets expectations. Leading, on the other hand, has an inherent forward progression.
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10 Marketing Secrets That Can Make Anything Go Viral
Like many bright-eyed and bushy-tailed teenagers, when I started my first internship in the industry I wanted to form my career, I had no concept of what I was going to be doing.
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9 Ways Your Body Language Can Make You a Better Leader
For me, the smallest details often can make a big difference in leading my firm Corporate Rain and being it's chief rainmaker.
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3 Simple Words That Change Everything in Leadership
Most of what I know about leadership I've learned in two distinct phases. First was the practice phase, when I was a manager at three different companies, first as a young management recruit at a shoe store, then as a manager at a small startup, then as a director at a large corporation.
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The Massive Difference between Negative and Positive Leadership
Much that is written about leaders these days seems to be negative: they are incompetent, arrogant, unethical, greedy, the list goes on and on. No doubt, there is a great deal of anger and cynicism from employees, shareholders, and voters.
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7 Tips to Triple Your Value From the CEO of a $20 Billion Company
Modeling from the best is one way of improving your performance and Kasper Rorsted falls into that category. During his eight years in charge of Henkel Kasper increased revenue by approximately ~28%, increased Ebit by ~60 percent, doubled the profits and tripled the share price.
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12 Steps That Will Allow You to Achieve Meaningful Change
Editor's note: "The First 90 Days" is a series about how to make 2016 a year of breakout growth for your business. Let us know how you're making the first 90 days count by joining the conversation on social media with the hashtag #Inc90Days.
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High times: Behind the scenes at a women’s pot conference
Now that marijuana has gone from illicit hippie drug to (sort of) legal medicinal plant, pot is beginning to acquire the same trappings that go along with any other industry.
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5 Easy Steps to Turning Your $1 Million Ideas Into Reality
The other day, a friend was plugging away at her work--it was a good day, pretty ordinary- when an important B2B opportunity popped up. Her phone rang and it was one of her clients.
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3 Myths of a Flat Organizational Structure
Zak Dabbas, an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) member from Chicago, is the CEO of Punchkick Interactive, a mobile development agency specializing in UX/UI, user testing, and analytics. We asked him about how to adopt a flat organizational structure and some of the myths associated with the move.
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Monday, March 21, 2016
The 15 Best Podcasts for Entrepreneurs
Podcasts have become a very useful tool for the busy entrepreneur. They're easy to create, are quick to digest (especially for those with longer commute times or who use public transport), and can cover a myriad of topics.
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Think Fast! Research Shows Quick Thinkers Are More Charismatic
It's that intangible quality that separates enigmatic leaders from just so-so speakers; that je ne sais quoi quality that makes people cling on your every word. It's charisma.
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All Trust Is Lost…And, It’s Messing With Your Business
Much of my work involves executive interviewing and workshop facilitation. It puts me in a place where I speak to many business people from all levels within the organizations that I help. What's been striking of late, is the emergence of a general feeling of discontent.
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
Teaching Leadership Skills and Qualities
Leading in the Savior's Way Leadership Lessons for Young Women Class Presidencies Do you have feedback?
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Here Are 5 Leadership Lessons From Dogfish Head’s Founder
Over the course of the two decades that I have led Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, we have always believed in the exploration of goodness, driven by our off-centered version of the golden rule: always aspire to do for others as you would want others to do for you.
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Your Team Can Make or Break Your Business – Here's How
Oftentimes, as businesses grow, there are going to be some growing pains. And even more often than not, one of the less obvious pains is the slowly disintegrating company culture.
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Developing a Leadership Style
Peugeot CEO Carlos Tavares talks about spending cuts and finding future growth in a saturated European car market. Real-estate developer Hip Shing Hong (Holdings), led by Managing Director David Fong, is a case study on succession in Hong Kong’s family-run property companies.
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7 Resume Mistakes That Make You Look Really Unprofessional
Ever wondered why you never heard back from that dream position? Or why you didn't get a response after sending over your resume and cover letter? It's likely that something about your resume was unappealing to big recruiters--something that you didn't even know could matter.
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
7 Best Traits All Authentic Leaders Have in Common
You have most likely heard the word authentic used in conjunction with leadership.
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Friday, March 18, 2016
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Watch Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah Blast Martin Shkreli in Bizarre Video
The feud is on. Dennis Coles, a rapper better known by his stage-name “Ghostface Killah,” a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, released a video Tuesday in which he insults and attempts to shame the former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli.
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Trump’s Next Painful Leadership Lesson? Being a Winner Excuses Abhorrent Behavior
Trump’s Next Painful Leadership Lesson? Being a Winner Excuses Abhorrent Behavior The Trump phenomenon affords many (often uncomfortable) leadership lessons; for instance, that a brand is not an organization, so Trump would have trouble in caucus states where having a ground game m
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How This Female Marijuana Entrepreneur is Sparking A Movement and Building an Empire
Three years ago Jane West was a mid-level corporate manager, housewife and mother of two. Today West is sparking a movement and building an empire. Named one of the "Most Influential People in Cannabis" by the International Business Times.
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