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Back to the Basics in Leadership and Life with former EVP of Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort Lee Cockerell

Consulting Matters

He's a great leader, and I promised through this "favorite executive series" that I would use my show to offer insight into the hearts and minds of great leaders so that you can be more effective in creating marketing messages and copy that resonate with them. If so, check out my services: [link]. Connect on LinkedIn: Betsy Jordyn [link].

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Grasp Servant Leadership principles, popularity, and payoff to begin to excel as a leader. With employee engagement and retention on a decline this leadership approach is long overdue. Robert Greenleaf first introduced the Servant leadership style in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as Leader.”

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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

If you were a hotel chain, would you be a Motel 6, Courtyard by Marriott, or a Ritz-Carlton? Explicitly marketing yourself with the term “professional independent consultant” can increase the price you can command, and it can help you to be paid on a 1099 tax basis rather than on a W-2 basis. Friends don’t let friends W-2!

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The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience

Rick Conlow

When I got to my hotel, the clerk seemed annoyed with me. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. Furthermore, do you want to enhance your leadership skills to drive customer-centered behaviors in employees? See this: 21 Servant Leadership Training Lessons.

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Defense, then Offense

CaseInterview.com

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). Sometimes, you get lucky because the market moves toward you. Other times, you have to find where the market has shifted toward. economic history. This is playing “defense.”.

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). million per launch.

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Want more consulting clients? Here's how to find them.

Consulting Matters

In fact, that's a recipe for failure over the long-term as this approach will guarantee your market positioning as an "extra pair of hands" and "trading time for money" commodity. Do you see yourself enjoying walking the floor of a manufacturing plant, chatting with the production staff and engineers? What am I doing wrong?".