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Leadership
Articles
Getting Started Early
Many entrepreneurs get started today out of desperation. Having worked a job all their lives they find themselves being downsized, and rather than find another job they start a business.
Books
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-five companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness - why some companies make the leap and others don't.
Jim Collins .
Collins; 1 edition.
300 pages .
Hardcover.
Cost: $27.50
Events
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Hamilton County Alliance
Location: Carmel, IN,
IN,
United States
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x 703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/HCA/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Maysville Community & Technical College
Location: Maysville,
KY,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/MCTC/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Lake Erie College
Location: Painesville,
OH,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/LEC/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Stark State College
Location: Canton,
WV,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/StarkState/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Northland Community & Technical College
Location: Thief River Falls,
MN,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/Northland/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Iowa Valley
Location: Marshalltown,
IA,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/Marshalltown/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Iowa Valley
Location: Marshalltown,
IA,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/Marshalltown/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: University of Rochester
Location: Rochester,
NY,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/UOR/
National Entrepreneurship Week
On February 23 - March 1, 2008, the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education is sponsoring the second annual National Entrepreneurship Week, a Celebration of the heritage of entrepreneurship in America and NEW opportunities for a NEW GENERATION!
The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education asks that educational leaders and policy makers put this on their calendar and plan to join us in recognizing the importance of Entrepreneurship in America.
Producer: Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
Website: http://nationaleweek.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Researchs
The Making of an Entrepreneurial Generation
Availability of resources, advanced technology, and a distaste for the corporate world are making generation Y - those born between 1977 and 1994 - the most entrepreneurial in history. This Inc.com article touches on some of the research and some of the reasons, then offers 30 profiles of generation Y entrepreneurs.
Web Sites
23 Ways to Delegate to Others
It's the challenge that just about all entrepreneurs stumble over - knowing when and how to hand over some of their responsibilities to someone else so that they can focus on the most important stuff.
A Blueprint For Strategic Leadership
The challenge of leadership is not what it used to be. For the past few decades - at least since the genre-defining book Leadership by historian James MacGregor Burns was published in 1978 - writers on business and society have understood that the quality of a leader's character makes all the difference.
Anxious? You Should Be. It's Good for Business.
ANXIETY is usually something people want to avoid. The dictionary defines it as "a state of being uneasy, apprehensive or worried about what may happen." And yet, in my work as an adviser to executives, I have found that in corporate life there is a place for anxiety, as long as it is understood and managed the right way.
Are You a Management Imposter?
Do you feel as if you are pulling the wool over the eyes of your workmates, hiding your incompetence? You are not alone. There is even a name for it: Imposter Syndrome.
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and now Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of directors has decided to change the leadership of the firm, yet there is great uncertainty as to who the successor should be, and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture.
Blast From the Past
Everything becomes obsolete eventually. That's why looking back at the past can help you predict the future.
Business Lessons Learned From Brett Favre
Recently Brett Favre, the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, broke the all-time NFL touchdown record. As a fan of football and Green Bay (I grew up in Wisconsin) I've had the opportunity to watch Favre over the years, and I also realized how his career provides some valuable business-building lessons.
How? Because success is success, whether you've built a multi-billion dollar company, written a dozen best-selling novels or are a famous quarterback. Many of the same mindset and principles are the same no matter how the success manifests itself.
Decision Making Made Simple(r)
Exercising good judgment is less of a one-time event than it is a process--one that unfolds over three distinct phases.
Delegating Upward
Good delegation is an art. It keeps work flowing efficiently and helps employees learn new skills and advance in their professions. Poor delegation reduces motivation and often makes people feel exploited. No delegation at all will lead to bottlenecks and prevents organizational growth.
Developing The 3-Dimensional Leader
Too many leaders today are one-dimensional, narrowly focused on business results. Today's complex business challenges require the full development and expression of a leader's capabilities; we need three-dimensional leaders!
Don't Be Afraid to Delegate
It's a tautology, of course. If you insist on doing everything yourself, your business will never grow beyond what you can personally handle.
Entrepreneurial Girl Power
The women entrepreneurs behind some of America's fastest-growing private companies open up about what it takes to succeed in industries once dominated by men.
Getting More from Your Employees
If you think your workers are motivated without consequences, think again. Being a good leader means providing checks and balances.
Go Out and Play
Say "company retreat" at the office, and suddenly employees cringe imagining stuffy conference rooms and mind-numbing lectures. That's not a retreat; that's a meeting--and it's neither inspirational nor effective. If you want a new way to motivate a dream team, try "play" first and "work" second.
Harnessing Your Team's Creativity
Everyone has a creative spark, but many factors can inhibit its ignition. Part of a manager's role is to see the spark in his/her people, encourage its ignition, and then champion its success.
How Curiosity Empowers Toyota
The carmaker's determined willingness to try new ideas has allowed it to build a commercial fortress and an astonishing record of success
How to Manage Gen X and Gen Y
Members of generation X and Y are beginning to dominate the workforce, but they are often misunderstood. David DiStefano, CEO of Richardson, explains what motivates these workers and how managers can get the most from them.
How to Start a Mentorship Program
How do you hang onto your brightest young talent and prepare them to lead? Simple: Recruit your more experienced employees to help teach and guide them.
In Praise of the Incomplete Leader
Have you ever feigned confidence to superiors or reports? Hidden the fact you were confused by the latest business results or blindsided by a competitor's move? If so, you've bought into the myth of the complete leader: the flawless being at the top who's got it all figured out.
It's Time to Pass the Ball
One of the lessons on teamwork that I enjoy teaching is the Law of the Catalyst, which states, "Winning teams have players who make things happen." Look at any highly successful team—business, sports, volunteer, or otherwise—and you'll find people who perform at a seemingly superhuman level to help the team succeed. To such people, losing is simply unacceptable, and they find a way to win, no matter what.
Leila's House of Corrections: Delegate Now
No manager can do it all, but some are afraid to let go. You hired your team for their strengths-now learn how to hand off projects and let your employees accomplish tasks on their own. They may even do it better than you.
Leila's House of Corrections: Eye Contact
As a manager, making good eye contact can establish confidence, authority and expertise. Find out how to use eye contact effectively when speaking to your employees.
Leila's House of Corrections: Managing Strengths
Do you find yourself pointing out the things that your employees do wrong instead of focusing on what they're doing right? Find out how managing strengths instead of weaknesses can make you a more effective manager.
Making Progress
These 3 companies from across the globe are creating products specifically intended to help developing countries.
Making the Tough Call
Great leaders are celebrated for their judgment. But what is good judgment and how do the best leaders sustain it?
Management Leaders Turn Attention to Followers
Experts in leadership are plentiful, and Barbara Kellerman, a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, counts herself as one of them. Now, though, Ms. Kellerman and some other management experts are turning their attention to the other extreme of the organization chart: what matters to followers.
My Bad
To err is human--but for leaders, mistakes can be excruciating. CEOs have big footprints, so their missteps often hurt many beside themselves: employees, stockholders, society at large. And leaders sometimes buy into the widespread assumption that people in authority have better instincts and make smarter decisions than everybody else. Confessing mistakes, consequently, can be an emperor-disrobing experience for a CEO.
People Acumen
In an excerpt from his new book Leaders at All Levels, Ram Charan discusses which social qualities make someone a good leader.
Preparing For The Worst
There is no crying in baseball, and there are no "sick days" when you run your own business. Still, there are plenty of ways entrepreneurs can get sidelined--from sudden illnesses and travel delays to pregnancy and military duty. Without a well-defined plan, those leaves of absence can pose a dangerous threat.
Recognize the warning signs and build your business
It can happen to anyone in a leadership role. Entrepreneurs can fall into the trap. Small companies experiencing growth can get into trouble. A middle manager can make the same mistake. They all can ignore the warning signs that they need to hire help, delegate work, or add another layer of leadership.
Seven Characteristics of Highly Effective Entrepreneurial Employees
Fast growing, entrepreneurial organizations need employees who regularly demonstrate entrepreneurial characteristics and work habits. Management of entrepreneurial companies must work diligently to recognize, identify and attract this type of employee during the recruitment process to assure a steady stream of the people with the "Right Stuff" to fuel growth of the venture.
Speak Up
Is interrupting a good business tactic, or just plain rude?
The DNA of an Entrepeneur
Is there an Entrepreneur Gene or an Entrepreneur Chromosome within the DNA of an Entrepreneur? A lot of institutional research is ongoing to map the human genome and identify the functions and role of DNA within the genetic make up of the human being.
If we evaluate the genetic structure of economics and commerce, philosophically we can ask the question – Are Entrepreneurs Born? Or are they made?
The Problem with Business as Usual
It seems like a no-brainer, but taking the time to root out stupid routines can mean the difference between a company's success and failure.
The Role of a Leader
Leaders are made, not born. Brian Tracy reveals how to lead your employees effectively.
The Secret Of Getting Along In Family Firms
There are many reasons family-run businesses ultimately fade or get acquired. Intra-family squabbles, marriages and ugly divorces are on the list. In other cases, the owner dies suddenly without having tapped a successor. Lawsuits emanating from greed, envy or just raw anger from an unjust deed also can deal a crippling blow if rules and regulations about running the business aren't written in stone.
The Top 10 Leadership Qualities
Leadership can be defined as one's ability to get others to willingly follow. Every organization needs leaders at every level. Leaders can be found and nurtured if you look for the following character traits.
To Heck With Superwoman
You may feel pressure to do everything at work and at home, but you'll be much happier if you delegate.
Toasting Etiquette
Etiquette coach Syndi Seid demonstrates the proper way to give and receive a toast at a party or event.
Whitepapers
Leadership
Many entrepreneurial educational programs focus on leadership training - as they should. Leadership skills will go a long way toward helping you accomplish your goals. Yet, one person's great leader might be someone else's Public Enemy No. 1.
