Leaders Don't Make Excuses

Successful business owners understand that leadership traits take many forms, in fact the expression "leadership traits" itself means different things to different people. If they expect to be taken seriously leaders who get results absolutely...

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Mitchell Levy: Thought-Leading CEO Reviews Time-Tested Principles

 Mitchell Levy: 4 ‘Aha’ Truths for a Changing Corporate Landscape Technology is moving much faster than many of our institutions – while it continues to change the way people interact with businesses, many corporate leaders are still oper...

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Does Your Leadership Measure Up?

The top five leaders most admired by the world’s business executives are Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela  and Jack Welch – in that order, according to the 2013 Global CEO Survey conducted by PwC. The qualitie...

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Kathleen Brush: Is Your Leadership Hurting the Bottom Line?

4 ‘Bad Leader Behaviors’ That Affect Productivity, Profits What can business leaders and managers learn from watching the earnings of publicly traded companies? “Plenty,” says Kathleen Brush, a 25-year veteran of international business an...

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What is Leadership Strategy, What Does It Mean To You?

When a discussion of leadership takes place do you ever ask what is leadership strategy? For that matter do leaders actually have the answer to that, or are they just making it up as they go along? What is leadership strategy first presumes...

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Kathleen Brush: What Will 21st Century Managers Need to Succeed?

Kathleen Brush: Expert Shares 7 Skills for Competing Globally Are the young, multiplying countries of Africa the next frontier? Which countries will be members of the EU in five years? Where is the ground safe in the Middle East? What will...

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Paper Mart: Ninety Two And Still Partying 24/7 365

Paper Mart: Making Parties More Fun For Nearly A Century Paper Mart is a 4th generation owned and operated family business that is celebrating its 92nd year in business. They have defied the very long odds, not only surviving from the days of...

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Stamina Is Crucial To Small Business Success

Success in the Olympics requires stamina, success in NCAA basketball requires, and small business success requires stamina. In fact one of the principle characteristics of effective leaders is stamina, even though it is described differently b...

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Leadership Development Strategy: True Leaders Help Their Employees Grow

When your employees are actively involved with the leadership development strategy they help you and the business develop sustainable growth and profitability. I hope your leadership development strategy is one whose focus is on helping your e...

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Leadership Development Strategies: Your Equation For Success

Leadership development strategies are the number one controllable aspect of business success in the 21st Century. Controllable is the key here. It is even more true today, with the traditional barriers to entry virtually gone, that anybody can...

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Any List of Leadership Competencies Includes Courage

Lists abound that are supposed to include all of the leadership competencies required to be a successful leader today. While these lists often contain a few industry specific leadership competencies, which is important since these characterist...

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The Next Generation Is Taking A Successful Company into The 21st Century

It started with a phone call I received from my client, a third-generation manufacturer in the automotive after-market industry. When their daughter left for college three years before, she had planned to become an accountant. The plan was,...

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A Great Definition of Leadership Is Here

As I love personal development, I would like to give you today a helpful and great definition of leadership. To be a great and devoted leader is all about personal growth. And the point is you have to understand the true great definition of le...

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Developing Leadership Skills Video

Developing leadership skills is an integral part of organizational success. No matter who is in charge today, that will change in the future so we must continually prepare for it. While there are many ways to describe what developing leadershi...

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Family Business Leadership Skills: Have You Got What It Takes?

To answer the question, have you got what it takes to be a family business leader - perhaps we should first consider whether or not family business leadership skills are learned or inherited. And whether or not family business leadership skill...

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Effective Leadership Skills - A Leader's Core Strength

What does it take to acquire effective leadership skills? First, you have to be good with people. Leadership is highly interpersonal, so many people skills are involved. To name a few: listening, accepting feedback, giving feedback and resolvi...

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What Good Managers Do: Leadership Skills

Leadership skills as an element of management. That's what this video in all about. We selected it to emphasize what leadership skills are all about since leadership skills are such an important part of the small business success equation - on...

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What Are Leadership Skills : Personality Development Skills

Successful business owners know how to answer the what are leadership question. They also recognize that their business development strategies should always focus on growth. What they may not immediately see is the relationship between their o...

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Improve Your Leadership Skills Video

As a leader do your leadership skills demonstrate empathy, kindness, and commitment in ways that encourage others to follow you? Do you regularly collaborate with your successful peers, before making decisions that will effect those whose trus...

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Do You Have 21st. Century Leadership Skills?

Everywhere you look these days you will find yet another guidebook about how to develop leadership skills. Generally they present individuals with competencies and abilities we mere common folks could never hope to have. And given that it i...

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