When most people speak about leadership development the discussion often evolves around building leadership competencies. Competencies like market insight, strategic orientation, change leadership, cultivating organizational capabilities, influence and collaboration, customer and market impact, and embracing a results orientation. Looking a little deeper beneath the surface, we can begin to discover the biological and neurological factors that are present in what we often refer to as charismatic, inspirational leaders. The factors that contribute to transformational leadership capable of inspiring creative thinking can be found in our bodies as much as in our heads. The underlying drivers of leadership are, in fact, biochemical and neurological in nature. The research into effective leadership and employee disengagement continues to pour in and it is all pointing to the fact that what we were doing in the 20th century is no longer working today. If creativity is the new strategic imperative (and it truly is) the time for changing how we develop leaders is long overdue.
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Let’s take a few minutes to discover just how important mindset really is, not only to the success of your business, but to your overall success and happiness in life too. For many of us entrepreneurs, this is the missing piece, no matter how successful we become.
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E-mail is one of the oldest Internet technologies, but it still causes a lot of stress, frustration and annoyance among users. Part of this is undoubtedly because of the volume of e-mail we all deal with, but a large part is also because it’s so easy to write e-mail that’s confusing, easily misunderstood or even (unintentionally) upsetting.
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E-mail is one of the oldest Internet technologies, but it still causes a lot of stress, frustration and annoyance among users. Part of this is undoubtedly because of the volume of e-mail we all deal with, but a large part is also because it’s so easy to write e-mail that’s confusing, easily misunderstood or even (unintentionally) upsetting.
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Is your decision process used to validate your course of action; Ready, Fire, Aim? Or, is your decision process designed to help you make a string of superior decisions and establish a best course of action? Why do so may decisions fail?
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Project management is a whole field of study unto itself, but it is a practice that is also used frequently in daily life by those who have no background or training. In its most basic form, it simply is any way of managing a project or goal, whether it’s for business purposes or personal ones. Something as small as planning your child’s birthday party can fall under the category of project management, while on the other hand it could involve rolling out new changes at a corporation or developing a new product.
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To be competitive in today’s market, offset printing presses must be run with high efficiency. Better yet, they must adopt a pit stop mentality. Here are a few words of experience in this regard.
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There’s a whole different class of ritual, however, that is a result of deliberate effort – it’s called… a process. And the best way to create a process is to take what works well and formalize it. So the trick then is to look at what’s working in your own organization and formalize it to see what’s not working and fix it.
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In order for any business to operate effectively it needs a business plan. The company has to have a vision of what it hopes to accomplish today as well into the future. Running a business that does not have a clear cut path for success is basically like running a well oiled ship that will eventually hit an iceberg and sink.
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Ask any good business owner and he will tell you that customers are extremely important. In fact, they should be treated like gold. After all, without them, your business would not exist. If you were to ask the average corporate worker, he would probably tell you the same. All company employees are working towards the same goal. That goal is to make all customers extremely happy. However, many times company workers can get confused and forget who their customers really are. They tend to forget that there are both external and internal customers. So much weight is put on pleasing external customers that they forget about satisfying their internal customers.
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