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Leadership and the Poisonous Pill

In the world of business and finance, when we refer to the phrase poisonous pill, we are referring to a strategy to fight an unwanted takeover. The purpose is to protect a company from being taken over by implementing an inflated cost that must be paid after the takeover.

In the context of human interactions, especially when discussing the topic of leadership, there is another perspective on poisonous pills. 

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#leadership #inspriration #personal development

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Who are the Smartest People in Your Organization?

The smartest people in your organization have compelling stories to share. Plus, they are a treasure trove of knowledge.

Do you know who these individuals are?

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#leadership #stem

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What Leadership Legacy Are You Leaving? (Video Blog)

What Leadership Legacy are you leaving behind? Leadership expert Joe Contrera discuss The Power vs. Force Leadership Continuum as he explains how the 2nd Principal (Leadership View) impacts your life and the lives of the people you lead!

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#leadership #influence #inspiration

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Why Professional Exclusion keeps your Company Glass Half Full

Consider how your colleagues work, interact, communicate, create and make decisions together. Are employees sequestered into groups based on functional roles, titles, pay grades, levels of education and generations? Alternatively, does everyone sit at the table?

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#engineering #leadership #professional development

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #12: Mark Granovsky, G2Planet

When you launch a software company just as the tech industry is crashing…and your target market is about to have an existential crisis…and you’re here 20 years later to talk about your success…you’ve got a story worth sharing.

#event marketing #event professionals #event technology

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Why Leadership Development Fails or When Ads Subtract

Here are five traps organizations can fall into when developing their leaders, and six key questions to ask about your organization's leadership development process.

#leadership #professional development #HR

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Why Selling Pressure impedes Service Delivery Quality

Adding selling pressure to the functional responsibilities of front line and back end service teams can backfire. First, these teams are not hired, or trained, to sell. Next, these teams may not have time to sell effectively, especially when actively serving customers. 

Here’s a more effective approach for both employee and customer experience.

#leadership #sales #customer experience #employee engagement

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Five Tips for Creating Memorable Corporate Events

Planning a corporate event is a challenging, complex undertaking. Organizers need to pay attention to an incredible number and range of details encompassing everything from pre-event promotion and the registration process to the venue, welcoming guests, the weather forecast, WiFi, the menu, logistics, sponsors and partners, sound and light systems, session content and speakers, data collection, and security.

Here’s how to make your next corporate event memorable -- in the right way.

#event planning #event marketing #corporate events

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Defining Leadership … I’m an Excellent Driver

Defining leadership is about as easy as trying to describe the experience of tasting chocolate  to someone who has never experienced sweets.

Why? Because everyone has a vastly different opinion about how to define leadership. I once heard a so-called expert on everything define driving in traffic and not getting mad at another driver as leadership. Really?

#leadership #management #inspiration #communication

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2 ways Customer Skepticism erodes Customer Confidence

If you want to perpetuate customer skepticism, instead of customer confidence and repeat business, here are two sure-fire ways to achieve this outcome. But if you want to change your story, and your customers’ experiences, let’s start a conversation . Let’s start a new story for your company...

#customer experience #CX #leadership #employee engagement

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #11: Michael McCarthy, Inkit

When you think of hot software startups, it’s probably technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and virtual reality that come to mind. You probably don’t think about…direct mail. But one Minneapolis entrepreneur did, and he’s building a rapidly growing business with his vision. Here’s his story.

#entrepreneur #startup #direct mail #marketing

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Why Business Decision Makers tune out Left Brain Thinkers

STEM professionals (Science-Technology-Engineer-Mathematics), often are the smartest people in the room. Hands down. They also are the hardest-to-understand people in the room.

That is why business decision makers turn off and tune out presentations and communications from the left brain thinkers in your organization.

Here’s a better approach.

#STEM #engineering #leadership

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #10: Aba El Haddi, EnduraData

if you work in a large organization that needs to keep tens of millions of files synchronized, across offices in different cities or even different countries, running different operating systems (Windows, Mac, various flavors of Unix)—you need something much more powerful than Google Drive or Dropbox.

Here’s the EnduraData story.

#big data #information security #entreprenuership

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Why Transactional Relationships fall short on Customer Experience

Do you see your job as a never-ending series of transactional relationships with customers? If so, your behavior with each customer falls short of creating memorable and enduring customer experiences. 

Here’s why, and more importantly, what to do about it.

#customer experience #cx #marketing #leadership #professional development

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #9: Amanda LaGrange, Tech Dump/Tech Discounts

Amanda LaGrange helped found Tech Dump as a board member in 2010, while working at General Mills in Corporate Finance. Since then, she’s created a high-growth business that benefits the environment while addressing poverty and injustice.

Here is Amanda’s remarkable story.

#startups #entpreneurship #recycling

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What Type of Professional Legacy are You creating?

Ever consider the type of professional legacy you create? As you strive to meet an organization’s KPIs for the functional role in which you serve? 

People are more than their job descriptions.

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#professional development #leadership #STEM

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The Entrepreneur Interview Series #8: John Sundberg, Kinetic Data

When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in Jobs’ garage, they didn’t envision selling phones or online music.

Great companies (and their founders) are adaptive. They begin with a vision, but evolve that vision in response to their understanding of customer needs.

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#ITSM #leadership #entreprenuership