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5 Leadership Lessons for Every Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership. While different scenarios demand different leadership styles, leaders can use the following tried-and-tested leadership lessons to lead effectively. Putting customers at the center of your business model has many benefits.

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RESISTANCE TO CHANGE RECONSIDERED

Lead Change Blog

Lack of trust in leadership. Often follow-up will be needed to any quantitative data collection, such as a focus group or confidential interviews, to understand the reasons for the resistance. Reasons for resistance vary, and may include: Loss of status from the change. Job insecurity. Misaligned reward systems. Fear of failure.

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Put Your New Business Model to the Test

Harvard Business Review

Actual market experience, veteran marketers will tell you, never quite matches the results of quantitative and qualitative market research reports and what consumers say they will do behind the two-way glass of a focus group facility. Anyone can map out new business model ideas on paper.

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Your Innovation Problem Is Really a Leadership Problem

Harvard Business Review

They have a leadership problem," I listened carefully. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups. It's time for leadership to step up.

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. To address this challenge, J&J designed their Talent Acceleration Process (TAP) in 2012, which fast-tracks early- to mid-career individuals to senior leadership positions.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights. Extend your business model beyond what it once was and into new sectors. Its CEO (John Y.

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Will You Be The Next Blockbuster, Borders, CDs or Mail?

Eric Jacobson

What is the digital company or the new technology that will force you to change your business model? As the leader in your business, are you listening to your sales force who hears everyday about the competition and what your customers want and your prospects need? 93% of that age group send/read email.