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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication. You can manage your team as a portfolio of S curves.

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How to Succeed With Limited Resources

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ve seen this first hand, when I look back at the most creative times in my career and in how I’m approaching my business now, the best solutions came when we felt the most stretched. I also watched the evolution at Verizon Wireless in this regard. management. They have the most to lose from a big mistake.”I

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What To Do When Results are in the Toilet

Let's Grow Leaders

When I took over responsibility for 100 or so Verizon Wireless stores our biggest problem was a saturated market. We didn’t need more retail customers, we needed to convert the small business customers that were already coming into our stores to manage their personal accounts. Everyone had a cell phone.

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7 Ways to Build Trust and Confidence with Your Team

Great Leadership By Dan

It took a few of these fire drills before the managers realized what was going on, and they were ticked. Although the managers eventually told John they didn’t appreciate the wasted effort, he never fully understood how hurt they were by his apparent need to quadruple verify their work. Err, nope.” Doesn’t he trust us? Believe in them.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

By driving millions of transactional decisions with predictions about the future payment behavior of homeowners, Chase bolstered mortgage portfolio management, curtailing risk and boosting profit. This veritable Big Bang delivers a plethora of examples so great in number, only a computer could manage to learn from them. Introducing.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. ” Management Science 56.2 Career Benefits of Entrepreneurial Activity for Individuals in Paid Employment: An Application of Signaling Theory.” 5] Folta, Timothy B.,

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers.