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5 ways to building a committed team

February 26, 2010 by Drew McLellan with 396 views

If you want a powerful, profitable company -- create a powerful team.  If you want to create love affairs with your customers -- create a passionate team.  If you want to leave a legacy -- create a committed team. Your team.  Nothing reflects on a business owner/leader more than the team they build around them. So in... [read more]

Meetings – A Total Waste Of Time

February 2, 2010 by Niall Devitt with 331 views

Guest Author Barney Austen A meeting that is not constructively planned, lacks a purpose, is not properly conducted and ends with no action points is exactly that. Yet, in business, a substantial amount of our time is spent in meetings that seem to be constructed from the off-set to fail. The responsibility for a meetings success... [read more]

A decision-centric organization

January 20, 2010 by JamesTaylor with 202 views

This week I thought I would write about decision-centric organizations. Organizations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organizations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make (which claims to pay, which customers to target, which transactions to investigate for fraud) are handicapped by systems... [read more]

The Power of Two: 2 > 1!

January 5, 2010 by Fabrice Grinda with 120 views

Looking at the most successful Internet and technology companies of the past few decades, it’s shocking to see how many have two or more founders: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Youtube, Skype, Yahoo to name a few all have multiple founders. Even Oracle which is closely associated with Larry Ellison has multiple founders. It’s much... [read more]

The Heart of Leadership

May 17, 2009 by Dan McCarthy with 219 views

Terry Pearce, author of Leading Out Loud, one of my favorite books on leadership and presentation skills, defines leadership as “seeing what is needed (vision) and inspiring others to take action to effect change”.In order to convince others to change, leaders need to appeal to people’s heads and their hearts. You can't just give them... [read more]

Leadership: Making the Tough Decisions

February 25, 2009 by Don Bulmer with 44 views

Business leaders and managers at all levels are faced with making 'tough' decisions on a regular basis.  This is especially true in today's economic environment. I have always been fascinated by the process that leaders (both good and bad) go though in making the ‘tough call.’ As an example, I have worked with some leaders who... [read more]

"Confused" or "Conflicted" About Decisions?

August 7, 2008 by Steve Roesler with 66 views

You and I go to meetings where the decision-making can seem unbelievably confusing. And how about those decisions where we just can't seem to arrive at a peaceful conclusion? After giving it some thought and observation, I think I've got a way to look at this that I hope will be helpful. Confused or Conflicted? The Merriam-Webster... [read more]

Gary Hamel on The Future of Management

October 24, 2007 by Steve King with 96 views

Gary Hamel is a well known strategic planning guru who works mostly with big corporations.  He has written a number of books and has a new book out called The Future of Management.  I haven't read this book yet, but there is an interesting interview with Hamel on the McKinsey Quarterly site (registration required).  Key... [read more]

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