Mastering Leadership Concepts
Learning how to lead. It’s the focus of many lectures, articles, blog posts, and books. Joshua Spodek prefers the active to the passive, teaching with exercises designed to master leadership concepts.
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Chasing Relevance
You may have read the facts:
83 million millennials are in the United States. That’s 36% of our workforce today and 75% by 2025.
How do we best connect with this next [...]
Whether you’re in a large business or you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve seen that how products and services are marketed has changed dramatically in the past several years. Our social, mobile, always-on, data-driven, [...]
Today’s Marketing Leaders
Today, many marketing leaders report that they are having less impact and are not satisfied in their jobs. That may be somewhat surprising since marketing methods and capabilities are in the [...]
It All Starts With Safety
Author and speaker Simon Sinek is a gifted storyteller. In this talk, Simon zeroes in on an often overlooked aspect of leadership: safety.
Simon recounts the story of an ambush [...]
You don’t have to be from Nashville to appreciate country music or its rich history—and you certainly don’t have to be from there to understand the impact of the Man in Black [...]
How Small Acts Can Equal Big Impact
Author and serial entrepreneur G. Shawn Hunter is the founder of Mindscaling. His latest book, Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional Behaviors That Lead to Big Impact, argues [...]
What would happen to your life if you gave everything just 5% more effort?
Michael Alden, author of 5% MORE: Making Small Changes To Achieve Extraordinary Results, says it transforms everything. Success is often the [...]
Your mindset is the key to your success, your happiness, and your ability to perform at exceptional levels. Your mindset is how you look at yourself and the world around you. An internal mindset is [...]
The Olympics offers us innumerable lessons on leadership and winning.
Watching some of my favorite competitions, I am once again reminded of the razor-thin margins that separate the top from the bottom.
“A winner is [...]
Og Mandino once said, “In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad [...]
Companies, like people, can go off track. A simple error compounds. The wrong attitude takes root. A poorly designed strategy is implemented. Perhaps the focus is just a bit off, sending everything off course. It [...]
Talent.
Most of us leading organizations are thinking about it all the time. Great strategy means nothing if you don’t have the people to make it happen.
If you want to lead, if you [...]
Confucius said, “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.” Yet, many times when a mistake is made, people try to pretend that it did not happen. They [...]
Trust. Find any high performance team with sustained success and you’ll find it. It’s the glue of relationships. It’s the desire to serve the team over self.
As important as it is, [...]