Leadership
by Robert Goshen
Whether you are in Houston, TX or Moscow, Russia, the business world has changed. While the economy may trend up and down, change is a factor that stays consistent. Even if your business is currently suffering, when it returns to the good times, the industry will not be like it was during the last period of prosperity. No one likes change, but everyone must deal with it.
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by Joe Calhoon
What adversity are you facing? Your ability to handle this adversity is one of the most robust predictors of your personal growth, future contributions and happiness in life. Organizations that develop their capacity to handle adversity improve morale, performance and profitability. Blaming, whining and complaining are symptoms of individuals and organizations beaten down by adversity. Every individual and every organization has a unique purpose, a mountain to climb, a contribution to make. There are three ways to deal with your personal and organizational mountains. You can climb, camp or quit.
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by Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, Ph.D.
As modern businesspeople read about the leaders of the past, they want to learn what they can do today when their companies are at stake. Current leaders in business and nonprofits face a faltering economy, an unstable international situation, a credit crunch, fierce competition, and shifting demographics. These situations are remarkably similar to the challenges faced by the U.S. leaders who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to draft a new constitution and form a government to tackle the issues. Some modern business owners are learning and applying success secrets from these founders.
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by Stephen Balzac
The holidays are the season for Yankee Swaps. Now, a Yankee Swap would seem to be a fairly simple and straightforward activity: each person either chooses a wrapped gift or steals an opened gift from someone else. This latter activity can, of course, trigger a chain reaction, but that’s part of the fun. At the end, everyone feels like they had at least some measure of control over the outcome. One would think it difficult, if not impossible, to mess up a Yankee Swap.
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by John Kador
Apology is the bravest gesture we can make to the unknown. If you think about it, the unknown is exactly what we enter whenever we apologize. Offering an apology is like tossing a lit firecracker and hoping it’ll be caught and maybe—just maybe—will become, through the gentle power of acceptance, an instrument of healing.
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by Bill Treasurer
The greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. In normal times, people can be divided into two equal camps—safety seekers and opportunity seekers. When fear enters the system, such as during times of economic crisis, the safety encampment grows thick with refugees. The flight to safety hampers the very innovation and gusto needed to help businesses survive during times of economic instability. Bottom line: Safety is dangerous for business.
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by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D.
In today’s extroverted business world, introverts can feel ignored, overlooked, and misunderstood. In fact, according to my research—a two-and-a-half year national study of introverted professionals—four out of five introverts say extroverts are more likely to get ahead in their workplace. What’s more, over 40 percent say they would like to change their introverted tendencies, but don’t know where or how to begin.
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by Roxanne Emmerich
It's hard to beat the movie Apollo 13 for drama. Over 200,000 miles from Earth, in the vacuum of space, an explosion disabled a space capsule on its way to the Moon. The explosion damaged power lines and an oxygen tank. The mission was over. And it would have been reasonable to assume the astronauts' lives were over, too. Earth was three days away, by which time the astronauts would be dead from the build-up of carbon monoxide, the loss of heat, or any of a dozen other things.
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by Paul Spiegelman
In today’s difficult business environment, finding and keeping new customers has never been more important. Most successful entrepreneurs have heard and swear by the old adage, “the customer is king,” but in my view, that’s only half the equation—the real power behind the throne is your workforce.
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by Amy Castoro
In today’s job market, with few opportunities and boundless numbers of highly qualified candidates, we are all looking for the competitive edge. It turns out that we are walking around in our competitive edge. Hiring authorities are looking for people they can trust to get the job done, who can stay balanced in times of chaos, and who can mobilize others toward a common cause. These qualities are observable through our presence or physical shape as indicated by the tilt of our head, the pitch of our torso, the cadence of our voice.
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