Leaders: 8 Things About People and Your Profits

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dennis Smith

Who goes into a business enterprise seeking to fail?  Nobody!  Everyone wants to do business well with the attendant success that follows. The only problem is that the prevailing business strategy for most companies is to focus solely on the bottom-line as the sign of success.   Doing that is to miss the “real” ingredient in [...]

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L2L Book Review: “Good Boss, Bad Boss” and “Drive”

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Kristi Royse

Questions: As growing leaders in the business world, we might ask ourselves these questions. Why are some people and organizations more innovative, influential, and profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees? Why do some have repeat success? Question Behind the Questions: “What can we do to enhance this in [...]

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Leaders: How to Hone Your Sixth Sense

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Jackie Barretta

Our teams and employees are not always willing to say that they need help. This is because they may perceive that asking for help is a sign of weakness and that there may be negative repercussions for speaking up. Fortunately, science is now showing us how to read the emotions of other people so that [...]

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Leaders: 4 Simple Steps and 5 Easy Tips for Real Team Building

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jennifer Cohen

In this article, we turn a true light on the process of “team building.” This is about team building from the leadership perspective. Team building gets a lot of lip service in leadership circles. But practical steps sometimes get lost in a maze of details. 4 Steps and 5 Tips When a team can look [...]

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On Leadership, Kim Kardashian, and Personal Values

Posted on November 17, 2011 by LaRae Quy

Remember the days when personal values were things we bragged about? We were proud to live by a set of standards—many of which were handed on by our grandparents. “The standards were grounded in an ethic of hard work and a spirit of generosity. It’s upsetting every time we read about a prominent figure that [...]

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The Tao of Business Strategy

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Colin Millar

Tao is a Chinese term meaning the ‘way’ or ‘route.’  The Tao of Business Strategy is a simple, highly-effective path to creating the kind of business strategy you need. your staff desire; your stakeholders demand and will create wider social and global benefit for generations to come. Taoism recognises the interconnectivity of all things.  The Tao [...]

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Leaders: Steps to Making an Ethical Decision

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Frank Bucaro

Moral Development and Leadership? What a concept! We all make decisions constantly. We decide what to wear, what to eat, whether to answer the phone, which route to take to work, and so on. We’re used to making decisions. But the really tough decisions are those where there’s right and wrong on both sides, or [...]

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