The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 9, 2015

Every leader knows the importance of being strategic. Being strategic means looking into the future and identifying trends, opportunities and threats. Below are my 2015 leadership predictions – threats, trends and opportunities – that will change the world of leadership as we know it today. 1. Complexity is the new normal.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive. Teaching-Training.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Failing to emphasize training. Research shows the by-product costs of poor quality are high for any business, up to 40 percent. The 1970′s brought the first wave of strategic planning.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

In this era, business started embracing formal planning. Other important components of business (training, marketing, research, team building and productivity) were all accomplished according to goals, objectives and tactics. Yet, you wouldn’t know the correlation when poor customer service is rendered.

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