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Innovating Your Own Management: Are You Up to the Challenge?

September 21, 2011 by Holly Green with 59 views

Seems like everyone is talking about innovation these days. Most of the discussion centers on the need to add value to customers through innovative products and services. But according to Gary Hamel, a leading expert on business strategy, there’s more to innovation than just bringing new products to market. [read more]

Little Book of Leadership Development Review

April 13, 2011 by Jim Estill with 58 views

First an errata. I wrongly gave credit to the procrastination log yesterday to the wrong author (perhaps I read too many time management books). The audio program I as listening to was The Now Habit - A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play.I like reading but I also like short books. Perhaps... [read more]

False Expectations Appear Real

March 28, 2011 by Kneale Mann with 19 views

Eight Inches Between Our Ears The human mind is a marvel of engineering we may never understand. We can run countries, survive 127 hours trapped in a cave or overcome monumental odds. Our brain can also keep us from succeeding, present obstacles that may not be there and create deep depression. In business, you know that everyone in... [read more]

Why You Need to Sell the Problem Before You Can Sell Your Solution

March 16, 2011 by Bob Apollo with 38 views

Recent research by CSO Insights, SiriusDecisions and others confirms what a growing number of sales managers have observed: for many sales organisations, more sales are lost to “no decision” than to the competition. Here’s why B2B sales people need to focus on selling the need to solve the prospect’s problem before they sell their... [read more]

Can You Define Good Management Technique?

March 4, 2011 by Tim Berry with 271 views

With due respect to some of the great thinkers who have, I don’t understand how anybody even tries to define, teach, or even predict good management technique. Even if it’s just one manager and one person being managed, there are already three huge factors: the manager, the other person, and the situation. Both the people involved have... [read more]

7 Questions An Entrepreneur or Startup Should Ask Themselves Every Day

February 23, 2011 by Rajeev Malik with 569 views

I like to talk.  I like to talk a lot, especially when I have had a few really good margaritas.  And my wife, my family and friends can all attest to that fact.  That is all except for where I may have had too much to drink and then I have an uncanny tendency to just fall asleep in mid-sentence sometimes even at a... [read more]

What Could Happen if You Do Nothing

February 9, 2011 by Jim Estill with 350 views

Everyone who knows me (or is connected to me by linkedin, facebook or Twitter) knows I like quotations - especially motivational business quotations. There is one quote by Anthony Robbins that is often used that I do not like is "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"I guess this could be motivational... [read more]

It’s Not a Business It’s an Ecosystem

February 8, 2011 by John Jantsch with 846 views

Credit: Audibon Wyoming I’ve owned a small business for over 25 years and in that time I’ve changed, my business has certainly changed, tools and tactics have changed and, in typical small business fashion, I believe I’ve handily adapted to the ebb and flow and lived to go at it another day. When you grind away, adding this and that, and... [read more]

The Great Workplace

February 7, 2011 by Jim Estill with 299 views

I am just back from a week of travel that ended with a break for Québec Winter Carnival.A plug for some of my investee companies (I don't often make my investments public):Well.ca is having a free sample promotion. Online drugstore (not prescription stuff) made easy to buy.Hitfix continues with awesome content.And I hope RuMe saves the... [read more]

Hardly worth the effort: Getting the last 10%

May 19, 2010 by Seth Godin with 226 views

In most fields, there's an awful lot of work put into the last ten percent of quality. Getting your golf score from 77 to 70 is far more difficult than getting it from 120 to 113 or even from 84 to 77. Answering the phone on the first ring costs twice as much as letting it go into the queue. Making pastries the way they do at a fancy... [read more]

Mentoring, platforms and taking a leap

May 7, 2010 by Seth Godin with 142 views

How much support does someone need (or get, or deserve, you pick) before they ship their art? The fearful lizard brain demands reassurance and coaching and even a push before it is quiet enough to permit us to do the difficult work our economy demands, before it will allow us to create art that changes others. So it's logical to wonder... [read more]

Zones of Uncertainty: Arises Leadership?

May 5, 2010 by Vineet Nayar with 141 views

For the last few weeks I have been talking about taking charge of your life, Today I want to talk about zones of uncertainty. This story starts in my school with my geography teacher. I was studying in the foothills of the Himalayas, we could see the Himalayas on the other side of the school. She took us out and asked “What do you see... [read more]

The Executive Session

April 30, 2010 by Fred Wilson with 200 views

Every board meeting should end with an executive session. The term executive session is an oxymoron because it is a meeting of all the board members other than the executives of the company. The first time most CEOs hear of this idea, they hate it. The words "we want to meet without you" strike fear in the hearts of most CEOs. And... [read more]

Sharpening the saw on your leadership and personal branding efforts

April 30, 2010 by Drew McLellan with 155 views

Two good friends and smart cookies have just released some great content available to you for free! Terry Starbucker has been blogging about leadership and life for many years now over at Ramblings from a Glass Half Full.  He's captured some of his best thinking and insights in a free e-book called Leadership from a Glass Half... [read more]

First 100 Days: A Practitioners Approach

February 24, 2010 by Editor Bloggertone with 293 views

It is clear from my previous post that there are a relatively consistent set of actions that leaders have followed when transitioning into new roles and while they might not all be used in every situation, they can provide us with a template for taking on a new role. Look, Listen, Learn: Talking to the management team was the... [read more]

Pride and Price; 19 Years of Consecutive Growth; How to Run a Company

February 4, 2010 by Verne Harnish with 141 views

"...keeping you great" HEADLINES: Run the Business As If You Are Going to Sell It Tomorrow -- this is one of the best pieces of advice Tim Danley, CEO of Des Moines-based wholesale commercial printer BCT Midwest , ever received. He noted this in an email to a friend whose 65 year old father wants to exit his business by age 70. The... [read more]

Contradiction and Paradox Are the Spice of Business

January 29, 2010 by Tim Berry with 468 views

Measurement, metrics, and accountability are everything. Except when they aren’t. Yes, I contradict myself. No, I don’t mind. Contradiction and paradox are reality in business as in life. As soon as you develop a general rule, you find exceptions. And I have posted here both the magic of metrics, and do we undervalue marketing we can... [read more]

6 Tips for managing a distributed workforce

January 27, 2010 by Becky McCray with 338 views

With all the technology available to us, sometimes we work with people for years before we ever meet in person. That can be terrific, or it can be a headache. Digging around in my notes from conferences, I found these tips on managing a distributed workforce from a 2008 session at SXSW with Andrew Huff, Editor and Publisher of Gapers... [read more]

Stating the Obvious: Social Media Peer Groups and Startup Strategy and Vision

November 10, 2009 by Peter Auditore with 211 views

Humans are a community-oriented species; this behavior has been crucial to our evolutionary success over the last 4.5 million years. The fact that many of us are now engaging with Web 2.0–enabled communities is not surprising, but how do we interpret the future of this trend? As Liam Fahey so aptly said during a recent meeting I attended... [read more]

Moon Shots for Management: Management 2.0

April 11, 2009 by Dan McCarthy with 418 views

In May 2008 a group of 35 management scholars and practitioners – including such gurus as Chris Argyris, Henry Mintzberg, Peter Senge, Gary Hamel and Kevin Kelly – spent two days at Half Moon Bay, California, where they created an ambitious agenda for management innovation.The results of their discussions are published in "Moon Shots... [read more]

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