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The Trends That Will Affect How Leaders Manage Their Time
At every company, leadership’s central challenge is the same: balancing here-and-now priorities with future planning. Frankly, it’s a juggling act few leaders succeed at. According to Harvard research published last summer, CEOs worldwide spend just 4% of their work...
The First 5 Minutes Of A Meeting Matter The Most. This Is Exactly How You Should Spend Them
I was talking with a frustrated leader at a healthcare facility. Her team meetings had always been lackluster, so she'd decided to fix them. She'd scoured the internet for best practices, then worked hard to get organized. the past month, she'd sent an agenda in...
Becoming a leader of impact
We’ve talked about how to lead from integrity and become more influential. Now, let’s explore the final “I” leadership element: impact. Integrity and influence are, without question, important components of leadership. But without results, leaders can hardly be deemed...
Why Your Workplace Sucks At Internal Communication
For a PR nerd, it is a silver bullet that helps you improve everything about a company. If you are an HR specialist, it is something that reduces the workload. And for management, it is often a tick in a checklist: something that needs to be done to look like a...
Leadership Traits That Transcend Gender
Highly successful women leaders are able to balance empathy and inclusiveness with assertiveness, ambition and drive. Ideally, all leaders should strive to arm themselves with these traits. What does it take to be successful in business? A tough work ethic, being...
7 Steps to an Effective Quality
In construction, punch lists are just one element of a comprehensive quality-management program. If you want to reduce defects over time, with the goal of achieving great quality the first time, punch lists alone will not get you there. When creating a new...
The Construction Industry Is Changing Fast
The engineering, construction and infrastructure (ECI) industry is facing huge challenges as it tries to deal with increasing demand to construct, operate and maintain assets faster, at lower cost and risk and to a higher quality. The non-integrated business systems...
How To Make A Hard Call In Six Steps
For CEOs navigating a wrenching global economy running at web speed, the really hard calls—what markets to attack, which deals to chase, when to raise capital—might be harder than ever. Luckily we talked to battle-tested executives willing to relive their toughest...
Speakers Need To Know When Too Much Is Too Much
Don’t get me wrong – data is a wonderful thing. However, as speakers we need to be very careful when we encounter data that we want to share with our audience. It can be too easy to just back the truck up and dump a lot of facts and figures onto our audience with the...