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The Consultant’s Paradox

Lead Change Blog

Chris Taylor, founder of Actionable Books, spends his daylight hours helping consultants and employees alike find meaning in their work and discover rich team relationships. It’s time to get crystal clear on where your business is headed, and how you’re going to get there.

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Guest Post: Market Sensing is not Crop Dusting

Lead on Purpose

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With a lifetime of experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for sensing markets, synthesizing ideas and turning them into reality. What market problems are you discovering or need to understand? Think about it.

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Guest Post: 10 Secrets of Effective Leaders

Lead on Purpose

Product management focuses on releasing the right products to the right markets at the right time; set both financial and operational goals for your product line. #4: 4: Being innovative ties closely with understanding your markets; be the market expert for your product line. #9: Build relationships of trust.

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Cover versions, Sequels, Taylor Swift and Innovation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Pete Foley An inherent contradiction in almost any new innovation is that it needs to be both new, but also somewhat familiar. If it doesn’t offer anything new, there is little motivation for consumers to risk abandoning existing habits or preferences to try it. But if it is not at least anchored […]

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How to Prepare for Rising Stress Ahead

Michael Lee Stallard

Third, the economic downturn coupled with a recent run-up of stock market prices increases the risk of a stock market correction, a particular concern for individuals relying on their investments to fund their children’s education or their retirement. UCLA’s Shelly Taylor, Ph.D. Second, the upcoming U.S. Don’t worry alone.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. Sucher and Shalene Gupta (PublicAffairs 2021) Trust is the most powerful force underlying the success of every business.

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Trust

Lead on Purpose

Trust is key to understanding your customers and your market. – The Product Management Perspective: Trust is the most important characteristic a product manager can possess. To effectively work with development, sales and other teams in your organization you must gain their trust. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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