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Quick read from Fast Company about the difference between Leadership and Management. When asked to define, Randy Komisar  said: Management is more operationally focused. It’s more of a supervisory role of setting priorities, allocating resources, and directing the execution. Leadership is more forward thinking, more about enabling the organization, empowering individuals, developing the right people, [...]

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I have been working on a series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. I would take a stab at a scenario an MBA candidate/intern threw at me. So far we have talked about financials and how to get a handle on your customers. Its all about [...]

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Last week, I started as series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. Inspired by a promising MBA student that is doing an internship with us, I thought I would take a stab at a scenario she threw at me. Last week-ish we talked about financials. [...]

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Last week, I started as series of posts detailing my thoughts on how I would fix or turn around a business operation. Inspired by a promising MBA student that is doing an internship with us, I thought I would take a stab at a scenario she threw at me. This week, let’s talk about financials. [...]

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This continues our series on how to run a successful turnaround – or – The Mike Lally Way. Maybe we’ll just call this RAST. Running A Successful Turnaround. The Mike Lally Way is just way too lame. Today, I will take a holistic, high-level view and in future posts, I will look at each element [...]

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Quote from the latest Tom Peters blog: Implementation—at the level of “chief” of a 4-person project team in IS—is and always has been and always will be primarily about politics. In fact it is axiomatic: Effective implementers are effective politicians, regardless of any synonym you may choose to substitute for politics. Wow. This hit home [...]

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We have an intern working with us. She is getting her MBA. She still has that new car smell on her. By that I mean – she hasn’t become bitter and jaded. She is still full of the possibility that most business problems are easy to fix. If only we applied ourselves. She’s taken to [...]

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“Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.” Link to NYT obituary.

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I learned something today. About myself and how I act in a certain situation. I am in a Leadership training class/group through work. There are 6 of us in the group. We meet every other week for an all-day session. Last week, the group nominated me as “Top Gun” – leader of the week. There [...]

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I am reading Seth Godin’s new book: Linchpin. I love it. He is posting some snippets on his site. I like this one a lot: Jacqueline Novogratz on how to recognize a linchpin from Seth Godin on Vimeo.

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