Standards Have Slipped: Why Leadership Needs to Step Up

About this episode

Bob and Jeremy discuss the importance of maintaining standards in leadership and how it impacts business success.

Standards are essential for successful, growing brands. But here’s the real question: what are your standards? Can your people clearly explain them? Do they know what ‘good’ looks like day to day? And are those standards actually being maintained or quietly ignored? In this episode of The Reality of Business, Bob and Jeremy talk honestly about why standards have slipped across sales, service and leadership and why this is a leadership issue, not a people problem. They explore how ‘expec...

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Hosts: Bob Morrell, Jeremy Blake

Topics covered

• leadership
• standards
• business growth
• sales
• service

Keywords

• leadership
• standards
• business
• sales
• service
• growth

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