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Use Your Brain and Work Smarter
In this issue of Executive Edge there are lessons on how our brains work, why we react the way we do, and how we can change our behavior for better outcomes. Knowing some of the science behind our decision-making and behavior can be helpful in a quest to become more productive and more effective in […]
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Why Accountability Counts
Too often organizations have so many corporate objectives that it’s hard to choose the top results they need to achieve. Accountability sorts the chaos, helps align expectations and improves effective decision-making. This issue of Executive Edge looks at accountability’s role in facilitating organizational change and the benefits of developing a culture of accountability. At a […]
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Strengthen Your Company From Within
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Much of the success of an organization depends on what’s going on inside its walls. How authentic is the leader? What is the culture like? What qualities and values are shared? This Executive Edge offers ways to improve the inside of your company. Topics include personal and interpersonal mastery of leadership, instilling work ethic, reinforcing […]
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Increase Your Leadership Speed
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Speed can be a positive force for leaders and companies that seek to accomplish more and add more value and meaning to what they do. This Executive Edge explores the need for speed and how to embrace it rather than resist it. Organizations can only move as fast as their employees. The better leaders are […]
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Compete with a Strategy
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To compete, many leaders are stepping away from conventional wisdom and stepping into where they see a new trend or scalability. In this Executive Edge, we look at ways to compete, including: establish who you are and why you matter, learn to be a catalyst, find your edge of disruption, produce proprietary data, and know […]
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Strive to Inspire Loyalty
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Loyalty can be demonstrated by employees, employers and customers in their devotion to and passion for a company, leader, team or even a product. As we learn in this Executive Edge, people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. People become loyal to what they experience and learn about the intentions […]
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What Attracts and Motivates Top Talent
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Talented people seek companies that will help them develop skills and gain knowledge that aligns with what they like to do and, equally important, gives them a sense of purpose. Companies that compete for top talent work hard to develop a strong value proposition for employees by embracing the latest technologies, providing a socially rewarding […]
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Learn Continuously in Order to Grow
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As a leader, it is important to create a growth environment for people inside your organization and for those you would like to attract to your organization now and in the future. To succeed at this, you need to model growth and expect it. In this Executive Edge, the focus is on having a personal […]
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How to Build a Good Work Environment
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The quality of a work environment can make the difference in whether or not top talent is attracted to a company, stays with a company and ultimately performs at a level commensurate with their best abilities for a company. This Executive Edge touches on some of the components of a good work environment, such as […]
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Find Your Company’s Differentiator
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This Executive Edge will encourage you, as a leader, to evaluate what defines your company and consider whether there is an opportunity to unlock new value to sharpen a greater competitive edge. Topics include: mash up ideas to invent powerful new combinations, achieve adaptive innovation, change a business’s frame of reference, start something new, and […]
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How to Steer Through a Crisis
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As a manager, it is likely that you will face at least one crisis during your tenure. The crisis could involve anything from a labor shortage to product tampering. How you respond to a crisis is key to your ultimate success as a leader. This issue of Executive Edge explores what a major crisis is, […]
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What Makes Your Company Unique?
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Companies can no longer count on just keeping up with the status quo to survive. It’s not enough. To survive and to excel requires the ability to expertly differentiate your company from the competition and sustain that momentum. In this Executive Edge, the focus is on ways to differentiate your offerings, zero in on what […]
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