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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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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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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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The Fall of Competitive Advantage and the Rise of Transient Advantages

LDRLB

One such Strategista is Kay Krill, CEO of Ann Taylor (and Loft), a “ bellwether ” woman’s apparel retail store. In 1999, six years before she was appointed CEO, Kay “gave birth to triplets” – her twin boys and the new “Ann Taylor Loft” (now just “Loft”) retail stores.

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Successful companies are “nice”

Lead on Purpose

Mr. Shankman shows how leaders like JetBlue’s Dave Needleman, Andrew Taylor of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Ken Chenault of Amex practice these traits to build productive, open, innovative and positive workplaces for the benefit of customers, employees, stockholders, and the bottom line.