Category: Leadership
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#87: Do we know each other well enough to cry together?
You want everyone to give you their best effort AND work as a team, right? Of course you do. That’s why you’ve probably worked hard to develop your company mission/vision statement – to create a purpose, explain your ‘why’ and give people a feeling that they are part of something. Then you spent even more…
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#86: Do we have any wannabe intrapreneurs working here?
‘Woz and I didn’t consciously set out to start a company. We tried very hard to convince two other established computer companies to fund us while we developed the personal computer. We spent a lot of time and got nowhere. Ultimately, we had no choice but to do it ourselves.’ Those are Steve Jobs words…
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#85: Where are our inefficiencies AND what are they really costing us?
I don’t know you. And I know nothing about your business. But I can confidently tell you this … There are inefficiencies in your business. And according to research, those inefficiencies could be leaking 20% – 30% from your bottom line. That’s bad news (as a CFO it nearly gives me heart palpitations!), but maybe…
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#81: Am I asking enough probing questions?
Tom Peters is on the money again. He tweeted: “Leaders do not earn their pay by having the right answers. They earn their pay by (1) pulling together a great group of people … and then by (2) asking the most probing questions.” The inference here of course is that by asking your team questions,…
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#79: Is my team more indispensable than me?
When Andrew Carnegie died in 1919, he was worth the equivalent of $300 BILLION dollars in today’s money! Not bad for a Scottish immigrant who started work as a ‘bobbin boy’ in a cotton mill at age 13 on just $1.20 per week. When a newspaper reporter asked him what the secret of his success…