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Leadership Infrastructure – A Prerequisite To Mightiness

Tanveer Naseer

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Leadership infrastructure is every bit as real as roads and bridges, electrical grids, and the Internet.

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Corporate Social Responsibility: Our Commitment to Sustainable Packaging

The Receptionist

Enter The Receptionist, run under a model called Employee Supremacy, where in contrast to shareholder supremacy, a company’s leadership decisions consider employees first and ahead of shareholders. This is a unique challenge for us because the product we ship is large, heavy, and fragile.

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There’s More To Goal Setting Than Making Them SMART

Tanveer Naseer

The next day at the executive meeting, people started asking all sorts of questions: How would you actually define our manufacturing practice? There were 5-10 elements of the goal plan that should have gone through a much more rigorous vetting and consultation process before they ended up on the list.

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The key to successful leadership is asking the right questions

Work Life

In fact, the key to successful leadership is asking the right questions. Over the past 20 years, while building a business with my family and working as a professor, researcher, and consultant, I’ve observed a common expectation: Leaders are supposed to provide all the answers and never ask any questions.

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Do Your Meetings Crackle Or Flat Line?

Tanveer Naseer

Hank Queen, former Vice President of Engineering, Manufacturing and Product Integrity for Boeing, put the leader’s dilemma about meetings this way, “I can order involvement, but I can’t order engagement.” Dick Axelrod is an author, speaker, and consultant who co-founded with his wife Emily The Axelrod Group, Inc. ,

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5 Latina Changemakers Who Are Making a Difference

Success

It’s the willingness to fill leadership roles , promising to advocate for and shedding light on the unrepresented and undervalued. This valuable experience set her up to establish her first company in biomedical engineering and manufacturing. What does it mean to be a changemaker? It means stepping up to bat for what you believe in.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop. So sue me” was the response.