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| | ... about the entrepreneur’s role as owner, leader and manager and how the decision making process of each role impacts the equity value of their business. Using a variety of resources including video, white papers, humor, insightful quotes, web sites and blogs we hope to help you examine the roles of managing, leading and owning a business. |
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| 2. Peer-to-Peer Membership Learning Groups are meant to provide a place...
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| | ... where, in a small confidential setting, entrepreneurs can improve their decision making skills, increase the equity value of their business and transition their role from manager to leader to owner. In addition to attending their monthly facilitated group meeting, each member participates in a private monthly one-to one coaching session. |
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| 3. Web Members & Members of Groups are the primary decision maker in their organizations ...
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| | ... and are generally operating companies with revenues of 20 to 200 Million Dollars. LEVERAGEDWISDOM is not for everyone. But, if you are an entrepreneur who has the roles of owner, leader and manager and want to understand the how the decision making process of those roles separately impact equity value, then LEVERAGEDWISDOM could be a great learning and growth opportunity for you. |
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| WHY JOIN A LEVERAGEDWISDOM EXECUTIVE GROUP?
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Better Decision Making
Increase Equity Value
Work on Your Business, Not Just in Your Business
Acknowledge the Isolation of Leadership
Sharpen Your Skills
Understand Your “Blind Spots”
Improve Accountability
Establish a Sense of Urgency
Explore Issues and Opportunities
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
Candid Conversations about Your Agenda
Assessing Priorities
Strategic Intent Review
Owning vs. Leading vs. Managing
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| Other voices of wisdom from blogs written by Jim O’Brien and Joni Daniels, friends who are extraordinary coaches and service providers to business leaders. To be considered for Blog Central click here. |
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| LEADERSHIP ARTICLES from Harvard Business Review |
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| The Cannes Award Winner Film “Historia de un Letrero” in the video section (at the top of the right column) is also about self awareness which can be further explored in the excerpt from this classic 1998 Harvard Business Review article “What Makes a Leader”. Goleman, the author, also wrote Emotional Intelligence. |
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WHAT MAKES A LEADER?
When asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally associated with leadership. Often left off the list are softer, more personal qualities--but they are also essential.
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| LEVERAGEDWISDOM BLOG - MOST RECENT POST by Richard Lavin
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| How Business Owners Can Avoid the Next Liquidity Trap
By Richard Lavin
If you survived the economic tsunami of the last 36 months, you know that not everyone lost their house, but everyone got wet, and some came out soaked to the bone. Click here to read more.
Want to get email alerts when a new post goes up? Just scroll down the left-hand side on my blog page and click Subscribe.
Thanks, Richard
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| To add wisdom and provoke vigorous conversation in our Executive Group meetings we invite speakers to present. You can access some of their presentation material among the white papers or click on their company logo for direct access. To be considered as a Speaker please click here. |
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Tax planning after the election and before DEC 31
Stuart Kessler
J.H. Cohn LLP
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A kinder, gentler Apple? Don't bet on it.
The NYTimes article says the big friction point is how much profit Apple is making and how it continues to squeeze its suppliers and manufacturing partners to the Nth degree.
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The Nutrition Souce
The most important determinants of good health are what we eat and how active we are. The Nutrition Source is designed to get you started down the right path.
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| In this column are videos, white papers and suggested books meant to prompt and expand your thinking about your role as owner, leader, and manager. |
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 | Technology vs Common Sense
Too often we rely on technology to create a safe, sure and predictable outcome. There are risks involved in the dependency on technology. As we do so common sense becomes less common.
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 | Historia de un letrero (original video)
Here is a short profound, moving video about “seeing” and, how language can engage us on many levels. In what role would you cast yourself, if you were directing the movie.
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 | Social Intelligence and Leadership
An interview with Daniel Goleman, Psychologist. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization's performance.
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| | The Six Fundamentals of Flawless Execution
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| Metrics Driven Leadership Leveraging Business Intelligence
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| Maximizing the Valuation of a Privately Held Business
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| There are many books we are recommending; however, you should know that The Wisdom of Crowds describes the principle around which our efforts are organized. The author, James Surowieki offers a treatise on why no one of us is as smart as all of us. |
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Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities
By Paul G. Stoltz & David Pulatie
Synopsis
Praise for Adversity Quotient:
"With AQ, Paul Stoltz has done something remarkable: He synthesizes some of the most important information on how we influence our own future and then offers a profound set of observations which teaches us how to thrive in a fast-changing world!"-Joel Barker, President, Infinity, LTD, author of Paradigm Shift.
"Adversity Quotient will show that you have more control over events than you think. The key is changing your beliefs. Believe it or not, that can usually be done in One Minute." -Ken Blanchard, co-author, The One Minute Manager.
"Paul Stoltz's AQ explains why some people, teams, organizations, and societies fail or quit, and how others in the situation persevere and succeed. With this book, anyone or or organization can learn to reroute their AQ and hardwire their brain for success." -Daniel Burrus, author, Technotrends.
"AQ is one of the more important concepts of our time. Paul Stoltz's book provides the direction and tools necessary for putting this idea into practice. It is a must read for anyone interested in personal mastery, leadership effectiveness and/or organizational productivity." -Jim Ericson, Program Director, The Masters Forum. |
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The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market
By Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
Synopsis
The authors' thesis is deceptively simple: that successful organizations—the market leaders—excel at delivering one type of value to their chosen customers. The key is focus. Market leaders choose a single "value discipline"—best total cost, best product, or best total solution—and then build their organization around it. They sustain their leadership position not by resting on their laurels, but by offering better value year after year. Choosing one discipline to master does not mean abandoning the other two, only that a company must stake its reputation—and focus its energy and assets—on a single one to achieve success over the long term. No company can reliably succeed today by trying to be all things to all customers.
Through detailed case studies of some of the world's best-known companies, The Discipline of Market Leaders examines the implications of each discipline from an operating standpoint, offering step-by-step guidance on choosing and implementing the right one. Each discipline demands a distinct organizational model with its own structure, processes, information systems, management systems, and culture. Treacy and Wiersema also show how to involve every member of a company's work force in the "cult of the customer," a new way of looking at work in the context of customer value.
What does your company do better than anyone else? What unique value do you provide to your customers? How will you increase that value next year? If you can't easily answer these questions, then The Discipline of Market Leaders is required reading. Because the companies that can answer these questions areraising the value bar in their industries, creating new customer expectations, and staking their claim to market leadership.
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