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The Most Important Team is the Leadership Team

Posted in business, management, tagged on January 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As we move into another new year, one of my priorities is strengthening the leadership team. As a senior management team, each member is completely committed to his/her own functional teams and employees. However, we’ve not spent sufficient time strengthening the cohesion and teamwork within the leadership team itself. Like all teams, the leadership team has dysfunctions and issues that need [...]

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Unfinished Business is Just Ugly

Posted in business, management, tagged on December 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A stalled, incomplete architectural structure is a true eye sore in my opinion. These unfinished buildings connote poor planning — of failure. In today’s difficult environment, we’re seeing a bit more of this. In a way, this is also how I see company building. We live in an era where most of our jobs are [...]

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Two Critical Parts of Building A Great Team

Posted in business, management, tagged , , on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Ask a successful leader about factors to his success, and “his team” will always be high on the list — guaranteed. If only it was as simple as that. Of course, a leader wants a great team, but many in power are poor at selecting the right individuals for a team and/or are horrible at building smart cohesion [...]

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Signs of a Great Leader

Posted in business, management, tagged , , , on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Leaders who I really admire are those who pass on the credit when successful but always hold themselves accountable when things are challenging. The book, “Good to Great” details how such leaders are found in companies that can make that magic leap to greatness. In today’s difficult economic times many companies are struggling. The leadership will be [...]

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Leading through Momentum Shifts in Business

Posted in Entrepreneurs, management, tagged , on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Momentum is a part of the ebb and flow of life. It often gets magnified in sporting events because of their intense competition format. Momentum shifts in sports can be felt and seen in the results. It’s visible on the face of players, by the reaction of fans, and even in how “luck” seems to [...]

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Building an Effective Leadership Team

Posted in business, management, tagged , , on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The most effective leadership teams are the ones that empower their members enough to challenge one another but is cohesive enough that once a decision is made everyone falls in line. It takes trust from each member to create such a leadership team. There needs to be a transparent environment where difficult situations are directly [...]

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Effective Leaders can Course-Correct & Take Everyone on the Journey

Posted in business, management, tagged , , on June 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Sometimes I envy those who are satisfied traveling alone on life’s journeys. How easy is that? You get to choose where you want to go, which route to take, what pace you want to travel. You don’t have to convince anyone else. You don’t have to build consensus. I often think about this in business terms. One of the [...]

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Organizing to be Adaptive as a Competitive Advantage

Posted in business, management, tagged , , on May 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Natural law says that the ability to adapt and evolve are the keys to survival. In today’s business with technologies disrupting the environment, this has become even more obvious. Inability to adapt fast enough has for ever changed the viability of many newspapers and magazines. An internet start-up like TMZ has completely changed People Magazine’s status within the market place. Netflix continues [...]

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RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Posted in business, management, tagged , on May 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Even if you’ve seen this before, it’s great to be reminded about what really motivates us, especially during business planning cycles like the one we are in currently.

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Provide Support Without Removing Responsibility

Posted in business, entrepreneur, management, tagged , on April 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Today, with the leadership team in our Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) office, we discussed providing support without removing responsibility. This is one of the five key principles of communication as outlined by Development Dimensions International, a management training program that I highly recommend. I think it is somewhat obvious that leaders, managers, parents should be providing [...]

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