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The Uplifting Wisdom of Fred Smith

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“Yale taught me to think, and the Marines taught me to do,” notes Smith in shaping his vision and leadership of FedEx, which he founded in 1971. Fred Smith understands leadership by example. Marine Corps commencing in 1966 where he received officer training and served in Vietnam. Photos: Pexels and FedEx.com

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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products and Profits

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When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. Likewise, leadership is a choice. You have to decide if leadership is really something you’re ready to shoulder. This article originally appeared on Leadership Now.

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Be In The Room

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One of the things I noticed when Covid first grounded us was how quickly and well our leadership team adapted to remote meetings. When anything becomes a mandate, it often does so with a nagging amount of reservation. In many respects, I think it is the reason our company succeeded and curiously accelerated during Covid.

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Is Facebook the Next AOL?

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The sound of that alarm is the crying out of customers reminding the leadership of Facebook that they are not users as the descriptor goes, but human beings who have chosen to enter into a relationship with a brand. As I have mentioned here many times before, a brand is not a logo, a brand is a promise.

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Moments of Clarity

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I like leadership teams who are never satisfied with themselves. I think working in a workplace rather than at home all the time is critical to collaboration, communication, and leadership development. I think in-person meetings when well planned improve human connection and help augment trust.

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Our Real Work Begins

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In the workshop I teach on executive leadership, I spend a lot of time talking about how business is well advised to be pragmatic. You discuss, push back, respectfully argue and create reason to be heard, but to defy the leadership is not only to put the business at risk but also yourself at risk.

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Rotten Choices, Rotten Jobs

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2) Amateur Leadership : I’ve said it many times in these articles—people don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses. Solution: Think strategy before you think deployment of resources. Ask What and Why before How and When—what customer problem are you solving, and why are you the right company to solve it. Then grind!

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