Handcrafted: Designing a Product to Scale
To scale, you must do things that don’t scale.
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Tag: Workplace – Leadership
Strategic Alignment
Understanding your mission and vision is only half the battle. If you do not align your team around common strategic objectives, you will never accomplish the mission.
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Where Should A Commander Be On The Battlefield?
A good leader will determine where they can have the greatest impact and influence and then will focus their energy on those things.
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Being Vulnerable as a Leader
Most of the time we imagine leaders as strong, not vulnerable. Find out how vulnerability will build trust with your team and make you a better leader in the long-run.
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Emotional Intelligence at Work: Why IQ Isn’t Everything
Being smart is important for success, but it can only carry you so far. Emotional intelligence is crucial in the workplace.
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7 Signs of Emotional Intelligence
Discover 7 signs of emotional intelligence and see how you can improve your EQ.
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How to De-Fang Failure in the Workplace
Failure can seem like a scary beast that everyone wants to avoid. But learn to talk about it and you can leverage failure for the greater good.
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Strategy, Action Steps and Habits for the Team
Once the “boulders” of strategic objectives are in place, it’s time to establish the “pebbles” of action steps. Eventually, the “sand” of everyday habits can be ingrained in everything you do as a team.
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Winning the War Within as a Leader
The first four principles for winning in business and in life have nothing to do with luck or environment. It’s all about who you are on the inside.
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4 Types of Relational Connections
The people around you will either make you great or tear you down. Learn about the Loner, the Toxic, the Fake, and the True Connection.
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What’s It Like Being a Black Man in Corporate America?
Corporate America can feel very white and therefore an unsafe place for African American people to thrive. Let’s change that!
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Maintaining the Edge as a Leader
Planning. Verticality. Decisiveness. Discipline. These final four principles can help you maintain the leader’s edge – on the battlefield or in life.
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What Google Learned about Team Culture
Google spent a lot of money to learn two simple things about what makes teams more productive. Here’s what they found.
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Get On “The Energy Bus”
The power of a positive mindset can transform your team with these 10 simple principles from author Jon Gordon.
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How to Stay Agile in Your Career
If you don’t want to get stuck in your career path, you’ll need to learn how to become more agile.
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The Domino Effect and Time Management
Physics proves that one domino can bring down a domino that is 50% larger. Apply this to your work life and you’ll end up being more productive with your tasks.
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Stop Doing These 3 Things If You Want To Succeed
Getting to the next level in your life isn’t always about the habits you start doing. Sometimes success waits on what you stop doing.
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Business Advice From the Best and Brightest
Glean some great insights from those who have succeeded in business.
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How to Hire the Right People
You can’t move forward in your organization if you don’t have the right people on the team.
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Leading Creative Teams Is Like Herding Tigers
Leading creatives can be difficult because they seem so unmanageable. Ironically, what they often need is management – but tailored to their unique personalities.
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Tips for Better Communication
A concept in the sales world is KISS vs. KILL – “keeping it short and simple” vs. “keeping it long and lengthy.”
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Values in Leadership
Having your top values in mind will help you to align your mission, vision, strategy and culture.
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How a SWOT Analysis Can Help Your Team
The goal of a SWOT analysis is to gain a clear assessment of your present and future as a team, organization, or company.
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Getting the Right People on the Bus
Jim Collins offers six things to look for when you’re putting together an all star team on the court, in business, or anywhere.
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4 Corner Training in 2 Minutes
If I’m a trainer, I’m doing it in four simple steps: 1) I do it. 2) I do it, you watch. 3) You do it, I watch. 4) You do it.
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