Sports analogies are few and far between on Lead on Purpose. However, with the 2008 baseball season coming to an end last night, and NBA basketball starting up, and football (at least American) in full swing, sports analogies seem fitting. A kind older gentlemen was discussing the end of the baseball season with me last [...]
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One of the first blogs that first caught my attention was How to Change the World by Guy Kawasaki. He is one of the foremost thought leaders on entrepreneurism and getting funding through venture capital. He’s also a successful author and entrepreneur himself. A while ago Guy started Alltop, web site that is “an online [...]
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The word vision has several meanings and is used in many different contexts. Even within the context of leadership you will find varying meanings; things like goals, objectives, mission statements and motivation to name a few. While they are all important and have meaning in their particular contexts, the foresight of leaders might be among the most [...]
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People feed off the enthusiasm of those around them. Leaders who love what they do and show it by their expressions, actions and tone, endear themselves to those around them. Seth Godin is spot on in his recent post about why this is not the time to ask for money. He says: “Attention can be worth [...]
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A recent post introduced the concept of market sensing as the process of gaining a profound understanding of the market. To truly succeed you need to get customers, or more importantly potential customers, so excited about what you offer they will want to pay you for your products and services. To do this you must [...]
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Just because you port or transition your product (software, hardware, etc.) to a model that is new/up-and-coming/exciting/proven/<fill in the blank>/ you have no guarantee it will succeed; technology is not enough to make a mediocre idea succeed. You must understand the market. If your product or idea is not what potential customers are looking it [...]
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Here’s a fitting leadership quote for uncertain times: ”All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common; it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” – John Kenneth Galbraith — The Product Management Perspective: Look [...]
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There seem to be a lot of stories flying around the media about people bickering, fighting or otherwise not getting along with each other. While such situations might help spark a political campaign, they do nothing for people trying to progress and become more successful. It’s especially important learn how to get along with your [...]
Filed under: Leadership, Product Management / Marketing, Team Building, Trust | Tagged: curiosity, Dan McCarthy, enthusiasm, good judgement, Great Leadership, initiative, optimism, proactive, progress, relationships, success | 1 Comment »
On his blog The Practice of Leadership, George Ambler wrote that leadership is about blazing new trails. What caught my attention, and very quickly, was the close-up of the cow at the beginning. The premise of the post is that people, like cows, tend to follow others on the same winding paths from one point [...]
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