Why CEO Candidates Shouldn’t Even Take an Interview with JCPenney
Why CEO Candidates Shouldn’t Even Take an Interview with JCPenney

Article | Business Insider | George Bradt | April 9, 2013Click Here to Read Article

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The Key to Turning an Entrepreneurial Venture into a Real Business
The Key to Turning an Entrepreneurial Venture into a Real Business

The good news about successfully going to market is that you get customers. That bad news is that customers complicate your life. All of a sudden you need things like…

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Top 10 Dos and Don’ts for Onboarding a New Chief Operating Officer
Top 10 Dos and Don’ts for Onboarding a New Chief Operating Officer

Chief Operating Officers can make a world of difference - if their onboarding sets them up for success. If you're bringing a Chief Operating Officer (COO) in to work for…

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Culture Change & The Catholic Church: What The New Pope Can Learn from Past Leaders
Culture Change & The Catholic Church: What The New Pope Can Learn from Past Leaders

The implications for business leaders are: Culture matters. For most of us, culture is the only sustainable advantage In general, start a culture change with an attitude change Treat culture…

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Leverage Service as a Strategic Weapon with Attitude and Discipline
Leverage Service as a Strategic Weapon with Attitude and Discipline

Leveraging service as a strategic weapon requires the right attitude and superior discipline. Attitude is key. Only organizations with a “service first” mentality can even hope to create a service…

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Three Imperatives for Service Innovation
Three Imperatives for Service Innovation

Innovating in a service business works best if the innovations are: 1) aligned with your core purpose, 2) meet a future consumer need and 3) can be executed by your…

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Inspiring and Enabling Evolutionary Innovation — From Middle Managers
Inspiring and Enabling Evolutionary Innovation — From Middle Managers

lead evolutionary innovation in an organization by giving permission, instilling enabling protocols, and inspiring passion

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Lenten Resolutions for Onboarding the New Pope
Lenten Resolutions for Onboarding the New Pope

On one level, the basics of onboarding a pope are the same as those for onboarding any senior leader - it’s about aligning, acquiring, accommodating, assimilating, and accelerating progress. Still,…

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Why Management by Objective is Unsustainable
Why Management by Objective is Unsustainable

BRAVE Leadership is at the heart of The New Leader’s Playbook: We’re all new leaders all the time. So remember all the time that leadership is about inspiring and enabling others to do…

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