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The Four Faces Of Leadership
Leadership, that is consistently making the numbers, consists of four competencies represented by the acronym VIMP. These competencies are vision, interaction, motivation,and politics. Other aspects of leadership involve grasping the "rhythm and beat" of an organization, learning how to manage by walking or flying around, keeping employees "brains in the game," maintaining consensus in organizational change situations, and always being ready to share financial success.
More Than Muddling Through
Midlife crisis is the 'default' condition: the way things will happen if you do nothing at all. Want to avoid it? You can!

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Project Management for Internet Marketing: What Is A Project?
Creating a new web site is a project; managing that site once it's up and running is operations. Seems clear enough, right? Those of us who live in the real world know that very often it's hard to tell when the project stops and operations begins.
The Value of Military Leadership Experience in Turbulent Business Environments
Surviving and prospering in a troubled economy requires a certain kind of leadership. Since the tactics required in both business and combat are fundamentally similar, business success and military leadership experience are often linked. See what the latest research says about how military officers can improve companies operating in turbulent business environments.
Recruiting America's Military Elite to Lead Your Organization
The value that transitioning military leaders bring to civilian organizations is quickly becoming a highly sought after asset. Unlike their business contemporaries, America's military elite have already headed up a team comprised of their fellow soldiers, for whom they are directly responsible. Discover how recruiting former military leaders can inject your organization with incredible knowledge and skills.
A Smooth (Business) Operation
Every business has its operations, whether they are highly organized, in disarray, or somewhere in between. Your business operations are HOW you design, produce, deliver, support, and maintain the products and services your business offers. The purpose of having business operations is to document, manage, and improve repeatable processes and systems that make your business sustainable, efficient, and profitable.

Protecting the Military
James Dicks examines the problems the military is having with the current job market in the U.S.
MORE HACKING. WHEN WILL IT STOP?
The simple answer? It won't. To paraphrase Willie Sutton, bank robber, "That's where the money is." PBS, Sony, Lockheed, Amazon, IMF, US Senate, etc., all announced in 2011 that their systems were hacked. Security specialists are now calling 2011 the year of the hacker. Weak SecureID tokens, malware, password attacks, etc., have all been used. Foreign governments, terrorists and a "hacking collective" called LulzSec have been accused. Recently, the DOD announced that cyber attacks can now be regarded as a military attack with the recourse being military ordnance.
Your Rules of Business
Do you have a set of rules that you use in your business, that go beyond just operations? These may or may not be something you'd add to your business plan, but do need to be integrated into your operations. They are the standards, and guidelines for how you do things, to what standard, and why. And hiding behind the position of being 'creative' does not excuse you from having these - in fact, creative type managers and entrepreneurs need these the most!

It’s A Battle Out There: Retail Conscription and CX
What do South Korea, Brazil, and Singapore all have in common? If you said booming economies you wouldn’t be wrong, in fact, all three have enjoyed steady growth within the past 10 years. However, there is something else these countries share that is slightly less glamorous than power lunches and billion dollar deals. Military conscription. For those of you lucky enough to grow up in the peace loving bubble of Canada, that means a government regulated amount of mandatory military service for all males (and sometimes females) of a certain age.

Lining Up The Pillars Of Your Strategy: Syncing Strategy With Operations
Is your organization’s strategy embodied in your business operations? How confident are you, as the champion of your strategy, that it is on track within the layers of your business operations? Strategy alignment is the synchronization of strategic goals with operations and execution tactics. Strategy “misalignment” occurs when operational initiatives are not in sync with the defined strategic goals of the organization. Most organizations inherently suffer from some amount of immaturity and unsophistication in their planning process, and this directly leads the the misalignment issue you want to avoid.
THE SECRET TO FEELING IN CONTROL OF YOUR DESTINY UNDER RISKY CONDITIONS (AT THE OFFICE AND BEYOND)
Do you think having a 50% chance of dying while at work everyday might affect your job satisfaction? Well, according to the 1945 report, Men Under Stress, that was the mortality rate for fighter pilots in World War II, the highest among the military. And yet, they also had the highest job satisfaction in the military, 93 percent of them claiming to be happy with their assignments. How could this be? As Taylor Clark relates in his fascinating book Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity

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