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Fear Is The Mindkiller
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| I had a long phone call with a CEO of a company on Friday. He’s had an intense few weeks and was clearly stressed out. His summary was “my stomach hurts.” My objective view of his business is that it’s fine – lots of things are going well – but there are plenty of issues he needs to address and they don’t necessarily have a short term time horizon for resolution. |
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10 Commandments of Leadership-Coaching and Providing Feedback
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| Coaching is defined in many ways, terms and contexts. For our purpose, coaching is a stream of communication from the leader to team members for the purpose of maintaining and improving performance.
Often times, coaching is viewed as an athletic function and visions of Bobby Knight, Dean Smith, Tom Osborne or Lou Holtz are summoned. The model provided by the athletic version of coaching is not far off from the business model but there are some distinct differences.
One of the comments that has often been expressed about coaching is the lack of time to devote to this activity. This is a classic symptom of a leader being too involved in doing and not involved in leading. When debunked this comment is really more about a lack of comfort in coaching skills than it is about available time. |
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Getting An Outside Look
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| Working with a team over time can create "group think" and rob the ability to be objective. Soliciting feedback from the outside can help overcome this. Read this article to find out how. |
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Assessing social performance cost-effectively
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| Many MFIs have an explicit social mission that goes beyond profitability such as reducing poverty and exclusion by providing good quality, reasonably priced and sustainable financial services to poor people who are normally excluded from regular banking systems. The link between microfinance services and poverty reduction, however, is far from simple. Positive impacts cannot be taken for granted.
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MLM Code of Ethics
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| Although MLM or network marketing has great potential for benefit over a range of contexts: financial, economic, social, educational and philosophical, it has largely failed to live up to the promise, partly because it has attracted swindlers and con artists in droves, but also because it has not made use of proven business strategies. This code not only protects potential recruits, but also ensure the sustainability of MLMs who commit to it. |
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Overview of Microfinance
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| Because the term microfinance is
used in many different contexts, it can
sometimes be oversimplified and viewed
in a skewed or narrow perspective. |
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Opening Up New Sectors, New Markets
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| At any point in time, most consulting firms are engaged in opening up new markets: either for themselves or for their clients.
This paper addresses:
a) Typical contexts in which a consulting firm might want to develop a new market
b) Some of the common pitfalls that show up
c) Telling the story, when the story is still in development ... "building the road while we walk on it"
d) Making use of alliance-partners to accelerate progress
e) Deciding when to call it a day v. when to keep going
As this is a huge subject, no one paper can capture even a fraction of our collective experience in this area. This document is intended as an aid to discussion, and therefore some questions are inserted to stimulate thinking.
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Leadership Success-Coach Constantly and Provide Feedback
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| Coaching is defined in many ways, terms and contexts. For our purpose, coaching is a stream of communication from the leader to team members for the purpose of maintaining and improving performance.
Often times, coaching is viewed as an athletic function and visions of Bobby Knight, Dean Smith, Tom Osborne or Lou Holtz are summoned. The model provided by the athletic version of coaching is not far off from the business model but there are some distinct differences. |
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10 Commandments of Leadership-Coaching and Providing Feedback
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| Coaching is defined in many ways, terms and contexts. For our purpose, coaching is a stream of communication from the leader to team members for the purpose of maintaining and improving performance.
Often times, coaching is viewed as an athletic function and visions of Bobby Knight, Dean Smith, Tom Osborne or Lou Holtz are summoned. The model provided by the athletic version of coaching is not far off from the business model but there are some distinct differences.
One of the comments that has often been expressed about coaching is the lack of time to devote to this activity. This is a classic symptom of a leader being too involved in doing and not involved in leading. When debunked this comment is really more about a lack of comfort in coaching skills than it is about available time. |
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Leadership Theories - What Does it Take to Be an Effective Leader?
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| There are more leadership theories than you can shake a stick at. Theories have evolved from "Great Man" and "Trait" theories to "Transformational" leadership - each with a different set of dynamics, contexts and focus. Here is an overview of leadership theories - but first here are 2 quick questions for you: (1) see if you can spot which applies to Genghis Khan and which applies to Mother Theresa; and (2) try to figure out which of these theories best describes the style you feel would be most appropriate for leading your change initiative... |
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Move Into China By Emptoris A Bold Act Based On Solid Research, or A Reckless Gamble Based on Global Market Share Aspirations?
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| Chinese enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors have been able to defend the challenge from global ERP leaders such as SAP and Oracle. This article seeks possible reasons for major international ERP vendors not being able to dominate the Chinese ERP market. Taking an ensemble view of technology, we conceptualize ERP systems as being embedded in complex social contexts, which heavily influence ERP implementation and use. Based on this conceptualization, we contend that a historical perspective and a social-cultural perspective can offer a rich understanding on ERP implementations in China. |
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Using Online Marketing Designs to Improve our Practice and the Prospective Buyer Experience
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| Online marketing designs can be mapped to different contexts and different situations and that ability to share and repurpose online marketing designs helps us to build up better practices.
Setting out our marketing patterns provides a flexible description that can engage and challenge us as marketers in business and improve the experience for prospective buyers moving through our process. This borrows from approaches to learning designs, which offer a representation of units of learning and of learner and teacher experiences. |
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