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Want Your Business to Be Successful? Behave Like the Company You Want to Become

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By Chip Gallent Is your company stuck? Have your revenues plateaued? Are your goals stagnant? It might be because your company is simply not behaving right. You are behaving exactly like the company you currently are. Think about that statement for a minute. I believe that your results are preordained because of your behavior. This […]

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Agile and Impatience are Inseparable

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When organizations begin their journey toward agility, they think the business outcomes will become instantaneous. They expect the initial decision to lead to immediate success. Moving towards agile from a more traditional way of working changes so many things about how we work. It changes who we interact with, and has us moving from building

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Miscommunication Is Killing Productivity: 5 Ways to Solve It

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Bad communication isn’t just annoying — it’s expensive. The Society for Human Resource Management reports that companies with 100 employees waste $420,000 every year through miscommunication. For major brands with more than 100,000 employees, that figure skyrockets to $62.4 million. When employees, managers, and executive teams don’t know how to talk to one another, projects

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The Peaceable Leader

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Do you know a peaceable leader? What is a peaceable leader? Think back to all the leaders you have known, in business and in other fields. Now think about those you would consider the best. What do they have in common? I have had the privilege of knowing, working with, and working for several exemplary

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Leadership is the Connective Tissue

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Leadership means having the responsibility to enable an environment that harnesses the full intellectual talent of an organization. We hire a bunch of top diverse talent but limit them by unintentionally having them work only within their part or silo of a large organization. Leaders often have visibility and access to talented people across the

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Good ERP via Good Meetings

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Integration through meetings I meet a lot of people from a lot of different companies looking to fix their company issues by purchasing and implementing a new ERP system. We typically work with people on an Infor product, but this challenge applies to any ERP system. A common, valid issue most struggle with is they

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4 Leadership Lessons I Learned From Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro

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By David Pierce In January, my wife and I completed a successful summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania along the trail known as the “Roof of Africa,” which reaches a height of 19,340 feet at its peak. Kilimanjaro, as you may know, is the tallest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the

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Learn to Talk WITH People Not AT Them

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Think about the last time you were at dinner with a group of friends and two of them became engaged in a (some-what) heated discussion. How did it go? Did they exchange opinions? Did they genuinely listen to and consider what one another had to say? Did they penetrate the heart of the matter? Did

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These 5 Brilliant TED Talks Will Teach You How to Be a Great Leader

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Companies spend a crazy amount of money each year training their employees — on average, $1,208 per employee, as of 2013. A lot of time and resources are sunk into developing better leaders within organizations. But does it have to be such a process? Not always. Publishing and materials that once would have cost a fortune and

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Trust is the Key to Employee Retention — Here’s How to Build It

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When any relationship is on the rocks, one of the worst possible solutions is resorting to paranoid attempts to exert control. Despite the obvious flaws of this approach, many managers end up making matters worse by showing employees a lack of trust. Nowhere is this issue more evident than in the rise of monitoring software.

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