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Jim Collins: Q&A on Leaders as Sheepdogs

May 16, 2017

In Thinkers 50 Leadership, Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove include an interview of Jim Collins. Here is one of the Q&As: What do you think will be the characteristics of the new generation of leaders? I think humility is a…

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A covey of principles to achieve success “one conversation at a time”

May 9, 2017

In the revised and updated edition of Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott explains how to achieve success at work, home, and elsewhere “one conversation at a time.” In essence, a fierce conversation is “robust, intense, strong, powerful, passionate, eager, uncurbed, untamed.” That…

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How to create a competitive edge for yourself

April 10, 2017

In Elite Minds, Stan Beecham shares a number of quotations that indicate “how winners think differently.” Here are ten: “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days…

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Eduardo Braun on “People First Leadership” Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 19, 2017

Eduardo Braun is a leadership expert, keynote speaker, and author. For more than 15 years he has traveled the globe and engaged in conversation with world-renowned management leaders, heads of state, and top academics and entrepreneurs, including personalities such as…

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Eduardo Braun on “People First Leadership”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 12, 2017

Eduardo Braun is a leadership expert, keynote speaker, and author. For more than 15 years he has traveled the globe and engaged in conversation with world-renowned management leaders, heads of state, and top academics and entrepreneurs, including personalities such as…

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Joe Pulizzi on the Power of Content Marketing: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 1, 2017

Joe Pulizzi is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, podcaster, father and lover of all things orange. He’s the founder of multiple startups, including the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the leading content marketing educational resource for enterprise brands, recognized as the fastest…

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Derek Roger on “Work Without Stress”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 26, 2017

Derek Roger qualified originally in psychology, and is a British Psychological Society Chartered Psychologist. The emphasis in his work subsequently shifted to neuroscience, and his ground-breaking research, mainly at the University of York in England and later at the University…

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Joe Pulizzi on the Power of Content Marketing: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 16, 2017

Joe Pulizzi is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, podcaster, father and lover of all things orange. He’s the founder of multiple startups, including the Content Marketing Institute (CMI), the leading content marketing educational resource for enterprise brands, recognized as the fastest…

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Derek Roger on “Work Without Stress”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 8, 2017

Derek Roger qualified originally in psychology, and is a British Psychological Society Chartered Psychologist. The emphasis in his work subsequently shifted to neuroscience, and his ground-breaking research, mainly at the University of York in England and later at the University…

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Rumination Versus Reflection

December 24, 2016

According to Derek Roger and Nick Petrie in Work Without Stress, “Thinking over a problem to arrive at a solution we’ll call reflection, but to be able to reflect requires taking a detached perspective. This is not to suggest adopting…

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