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Leading by Cause

Lead Change Blog

Improvement – In the effects domain, managers often look for steps to improve the appearance of their P&L results, yet no real, underlying change takes place. For example, a manager might delay travel or defer other expenses in the last weeks of a quarter to create the appearance of lower operating costs, thus a better bottom line.

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Preview Thursday: Total Value Optimization

Lead Change Blog

Its performance determines the health of your daily operations and the long-term success of your enterprise. Bowen is the Chairman and CEO of Maine Pointe , a firm specializing in driving EBITDA and cash improvements across the areas of procurement, operations, and logistics to enable growth.

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. We prioritized how to move the industry forward as a more mainstream, P&L-focused business. With each decision, we asked ourselves what’s the best way to do something and could we make it even better.

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More Evidence For How Company Performance Is Affected By CEO Personality

LDRLB

CEOs could enlist individuals who posses these traits for their top management teams and could give them prominent roles in specific strategic domains…Venture capitalists could use these personality measurements in predicting the success of SMEs operating in dynamic industries and thus, in making investment decisions (p. Simmons, Ph.D.

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Getting Culture Right

You're Not the Boss of Me

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Celebrate Good Times…Come On! This video speaks to the culture that is prevalent in more workplaces than any of us would like to admit, workplaces that operate on the basis of positional power with an undercurrent of fear.

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Do You Need a Formal Degree, or Will a MOOC Do?

Harvard Business Review

Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations. What specific skills do you want to cultivate? Start by looking at the job you’re aiming for.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

To help shine some light on this topic, I've decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. And what lessons can be applied to the early decisions you make as a start-up?

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