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06
Nov
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Quitter, Camper, Climber: Who’s on Your Team?

By Richard Lavin, Founder, LEVERAGEDWISDOM richard.lavin@leveragedwisdom.com Years ago I met Doug Tomkins, an incredibly successful young man who by his early 30 years had built a $100 million women’s clothing line distributing nationally to all the top department stores and boutiques. I was about his age when we met; but, my accomplishments were much more […]
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02
Nov
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CEO Chief Empathy Officer

The burden of leadership will grow heavy over the coming days, weeks and months. In “normal” times your success has enabled you to care for many …your immediate and extended families, your employees, your vendors and your customers. As well as, institutions and charities that are important to your sense of community and shared fate. […]
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03
Dec
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What’s the expiration date on your business?

“We tackle the tough questions that keep owners of privately held businesses up at night.” Richard Lavin The stark reality is that there is life cycle to everything.  At some point even the greatest waterway has to be widened (the Panama Canal).  A company built on rock-solid chemistry is blindsided by digital process (Kodak).  A […]
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Choose One At Your Peril: The Disciplines of Market Leaders

The Discipline of Market Leaders became a much revered business book in the mid-90s. At LEVERAGEDWISDOM the book generated vigorous discussion and ultimately disagreement with the authors. Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema claimed that market leadership derived from choosing one of three disciplines; operational excellence, product leadership or customer intimacy. To attempt to master all […]
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09
Jun
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Wisdom of Crowds

“No one of us is as smart as all of us” or The Wisdom of Crowds. A LEVERAGEDWISDOM Member recently summed up his meeting day experience by declaring, that it seemed “No one of us is as smart as all of us.” He had presented to the assembled CEOs a troubling issue about a long […]
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Beware of Black Swans and Dead Elephants

In “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb contends that our belief in the predictability of events, based on what’s happened in the past, is so ingrained that we either overlook or can’t conceive of the fact that genuinely important events can’t always be predicted. If, for example, as […]
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