Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

11:40 – The Make It Happen Box and how to use it to manage overwhelm and multiple leadership pressures. 33:57 – Why honesty is a great marketing strategy. 33:57 – Why honesty is a great marketing strategy. Get Sabrina’s Book. Make It, Don’t Fake It. What is uniquely yours?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 6, 2025

Stumped for what business books to add to your spring (or spring break) reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. This book is a wake-up call for every business leader. His advice?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Maxwell’s excellent book The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth emphasizes the importance of growth. Books (Hint: Go Beyond The Business Section!). For years, I have accessed new influences, ideas and opportunities through books. Here are two book suggestions to bring new influences into your leadership thinking.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 30, 2014

If you want a more in-depth view, her book “How the World Sees You” is also a great resource. To do it well takes a bit more of a time investment, but if I were in the job market I would go this route. They analyzed 3 million resumes and correlated them with managers ratings of “5 star.”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Transformational Coaching is the requisite skill for today’s leaders, managers, and supervisors who choose to enhance their personal effectiveness and the performance of those they lead. One of the most effective ways to promote your upcoming launch is to make simple, effective asks to those that are closest to you.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. They may have significant incentive to do so — they may be close to breaking a personal record or they may believe that their chance to increase their scoring statistics will make them more marketable as a player. Doing so creates agility.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. Even more alarming, almost every new business it launched failed: e-books, mobile phones, search engines, music; it was one dramatic dud after another. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. You know this company.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Steve Curtin is an expert on customer service management and leadership. After a 20-year career at Marriott International working in operations, human resources, sales and marketing, Steve launched his own consulting company to help organizations improve their customer service operations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2023

In this article, we address the common reasons so many managers tolerate poor performance, and what to do instead. 6 Reasons Managers Tolerate Poor Performance Here’s a gut check if addressing performance issues is hard for you. One hiring manager actually told me, “Well, Karin, you have very high standards.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

He wrote Create the Future + The Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking (two books in one) to help us. “We Market leaders consistently miss out on great new ideas because they overestimate their market dominance.” This is a tension—between farmer and hunter—that must be managed. What to do? What to do?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

a fairly notorious email encryption company both provoking concerns from the NSA but also putting privacy on the map as “the marketing gorilla of the Internet.” With this impressive implementation, it had managed to enter into an agreement with a much larger, high-profile player in the industry. In this case, Hermes wept.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 30, 2014

To me your book represents a leader saying why and how I should relate to them, excuse them, allow for and understand their human nature. I want leaders to see more than market share, and stack ranks. In short I want leaders to improve, have better sight, understand and truly grow about those in their care.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

We have cultivated a unique culture and management approach that we call the Hacker Way. At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training. She sits on a Board of Directors of Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA).

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

S AY you have a manufacturing location with problems — three plant managers in two years, unusual variation in quality and/or safety, seemingly unpredictable swings in productivity. Also, 3) Decisions by management to accept storage of combustible material in proximity of the mixing vessel contributed to the accident.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Throw in complex organizations operating in complex markets, and you’ve really got to marvel at how it all comes together every day. I once worked with a company that decided to collapse its engineering organization by turning Engineering Managers into Managing Engineers, and oh, what a difference the word order makes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2019

Recognize that Great Leaders Have No Rules (the title of Kevin’s most recent book) and how to lead yourself and your team in a way that transforms outcomes, is more fun, and doesn’t drive you or anyone else nuts. Oh, and there are a few bits of marketing wisdom and personal leadership examples too.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

There is a lot contained in that last statement and is the subject of this book. This includes marketing, product design, sales, and, yes, customer service.”. There are a lot of great insights in this book. Intentional leadership is effective leadership. The Culture Imperative. It’s not complicated. Stimulus is critical.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2017

Click on the image to visit Karin’s store and download the book she co-authored with Alli free. Alli and I really got to know one another through our collaboration around two projects: the Energized Leadership book and our e-book A Parent’s Guide to Leadership (available for free download here).

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 6, 2021

41:04 – Next we discuss the vital role authenticity plays for today’s top leaders and why doing the work of honestly looking at yourself is marketable (not to mention important for your own health and wellness). Get Tina’s Book. 2:44 – Tina’s background caring for people and her earlier leadership memory.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Leadership and Management Book Podcast with @ArtPetty: Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead from @wallybock. James Mattis: My Favorite Books Your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you. Here’s how you can prepare for hyper-personalization in marketing via @thenextweb. Are you a mentor magnet?

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2022

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. Summary: Strategic moves create a leap in value for the company, its buyers, and its employees while unlocking new demand and making the competition irrelevant.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The Pixar 2018 documentary on the company tells the tale of a group of passionate, driven people who worked around the clock, sleeping under their desks to bring to market revolutionary technology tools. At a candid team meeting, someone asked his role, “I have been sent by corporate to be your manager.”

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2025

Edinger , author of the book, The Growth Leader. His book explains why that is true. By reading the book, you'll learn how to ensure growth strategy is aligned at every level of your company, from boardroom initiatives to daily customer interaction. Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue, he adds.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

But as the best keep getting better (improved equipment, better conditioning and strength, smarter course management, better coaches and caddies), it’s vital to improve the courses to meet the new abilities. He has published 60 books, many of which have been on the curricula at top business schools.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 10, 2024

And he has a framework based on studies in consumer behaviour, behavioural psychology, and marketing analytics that can help any organization become their own version of an experience disruptor. Noteworthy links: Buy Allen’s book “Seeing The How” on Amazon.* As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent. His book, Digital Transformation Success: Achieving Alignment and Delivering Results with the Process Inventory Framework (Apress, Dec.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In this episode, David Giersdorf, a former senior executive in the global cruise, travel, and marketing services industry, gives the roadmap for leading through disruption. Get David’s Book. Is there any industry that’s been disrupted more at a global level over the past twenty years than the cruise lines?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Agile marketing has been lauded as a must-have for marketing teams and big-name businesses. Many entrepreneurs take the “throw spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks” approach to marketing. Yet, as every entrepreneur knows, business plans and marketing plans quickly become outdated. Why do they buy from me?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

He had just released his latest book on change and I was sharing a leadership keynote with a business headquartered in Long Island. As an expert in change and change management, Ilja embodies his message with an energetic, upbeat, and positive response to whatever comes his way. In my book “Think it. WINNING WELL CONNECTION.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Soon, I will share my pick for the Best Leadership Book of this year (2022). In the meantime, here's a reminder of what I selected as the Best Leadership Book of 2021. Flashback : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 20, 2016

In his book “The Speed of Trust,” Stephen M.R. The research behind what makes those companies get on that list is conducted by the folks at Great Place to Work , who report that 92 percent of employees surveyed at these companies believe that management is transparent in its business practices. By 2014, Popeyes did a 180-degree turn.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 24, 2025

Dilenschneiders new book, Character , are about people who are exceptional exemplars of character. Profiled in the book are individuals in fields as diverse as politics, religion, medicine, business, sports, entertainment, and the military, including: Nelson Mandela Eleanor Roosevelt Susan B. The 29 profiles you will read in Robert L.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

Today, we flashback to 2021 : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 18, 2021

As the owner or manager of a restaurant, it’s natural that you’re flat out looking at many of your business’s everyday operational components. However, to achieve tremendous growth and turn your restaurant into the powerhouse you hope it to be, it’s vital to market the brand and its wares. Understanding Influencer Marketing.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Then there are the social entrepreneurs where the donation is a marketing expense that drives growth. About two-thirds of the businesses owned around the world are owned and operated by families, and in America, “family firms constitute over half of the businesses in the country and half of those listed on stock markets.”.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Curley Fujihara, their 5-foot manager, stood on a chair with the broom raised high, allowing the players to practice shooting over what would feel like an impossible obstacle. This mindset is what enables organizations to navigate dynamic markets, seize new opportunities, and thrive over the long term.

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