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A Recipe for Good Leadership
There are many ingredients that go into making yourself a good leader. In this Executive Edge we consider essential instincts, personal strategies, essential practices, different roles to fill, and developing a vision for the future. As complex as business has become, it’s helpful to have a recipe for good leadership.
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Talk in Ways That Will Be Heard
Each time we speak, we strive to inform, influence or inspire others. To be able to say anything to anyone at any time, this Executive Edge suggests how to say the right thing at the right time, say what you mean, get people beyond resistance, and engage in high-stakes exchanges. To gain confidence and respect […]
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How to Make Better Decisions
Every day, as leaders and managers, we face multiple decisions. At times it can be overwhelming, unless you have developed a pattern for making good decisions. In this issue of Executive Edge, we look at how to improve decision-making so that processes within your organization run more smoothly and effectively. Topics include having a strategy, […]
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How to Manage Workplace Conflict
The focus of this issue of Executive Edge is workplace conflict: the conditions that brew it, techniques for resolving it, and what a manager’s role should be when conflict arises. You’ll learn why conflict can sometimes be a good thing, and even get a chance to test your company’s conflict-management IQ. Workplace conflict can be […]
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Strategies for Critical Conversations
When you’re trying to persuade someone to do, or not to do, something, it’s best to have the conversation face-to-face. It’s better than a phone call and far better than an email. This Executive Edge explores strategies for persuasion and also for being persuadable. Topics cover the process of persuasion, changing your mind, negotiation barriers, […]
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What Productivity Does for Us
In all cases, productivity is a good thing. This Executive Edge considers productivity and what it means to companies, leaders and individuals. Productivity can determine if a company goes forward, an individual is promoted, or in a larger sense, whether our standard of living increases. Productivity can be encouraged, measured, rewarded and celebrated. To gain […]
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Develop the Ideal Team
Solid teamwork can push any company to the next level of success. This Executive Edge focuses on how leaders can develop the ideal team and guide it towards its highest potential. Topics presented include examining what ideal team players are made of, connecting what your team is saying with what it is doing, tips on […]
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How to Work Intelligently
To work intelligently today is not as straightforward as it was before so many branches of intelligence evolved and have taken root on their own. In this Executive Edge, we take an inventory of some of those types of intelligence, looking into partnership, emotional, success, creative, ecological and gender intelligence. By considering the many facets […]
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How to Sharpen Your Sales Approach
This issue of Executive Edge embraces key strategies that can help salespeople become more effective at winning the confidence of prospects at the very first point of contact and beyond. For up-to-date advice, this issue includes interview excerpts that discuss how to approach a change-resistant prospect and what today’s sales students are being taught in […]
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Build a Stronger Company
Organizations that are succeeding are on top of what’s happening around them and are actively seeking to adapt ahead of the curve and ahead of trouble. In this issue of Executive Edge, we look at ways that companies can build their strengths including accepting failures, adapting quickly, resisting aging, understanding co-innovation and addressing the company’s […]
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Define Yourself as a Leader
This issue of Executive Edge looks at what it takes to be a leader, delving into characteristics and goals that are attributable to successful leaders, and framing some of the challenges that ultimately define the quality of leadership. Leadership is present everywhere in the public, private and social sectors. Defining yourself as a leader is […]
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Encourage Adaptability by Leading It
Increasingly leaders must have the skills to see when their businesses need to adapt and then, know what adaptation is needed. They need to get ahead of the curve and be nimble enough in their leadership to move forward ahead of trouble. In this Executive Edge, the focus is on the critical idea that leaders […]
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