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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Haden for LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Photo: flickr user Jason Csizmadi * * * Remarkable employees (here’s a link to how…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Taft for LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Photo: creative commons licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickr photo by trackrecord * * * “You’d get very…
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I have just read and will soon review Bruce Schneier‘s latest book, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive. Almost all of the in formation, insights, and counsel he provides can help almost anyone earn and…
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Theodor Seuss Geisel (above) died in 1991. The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Anna Russell for The Wall Street Journal. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information,…
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In The Explorer Gene, Tom Cheshire explains how three generations of the Piccard family went higher, deeper, and further than anyone else had ever done before. Auguste Piccard was the patriarch. At one point, he accepted a position at the…
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Here is another brief, remarkably thoughtful article written by Marshall Goldsmith for Talent Management magazine. He suggests and I agree that mentors — and especially supervisors — should ask questions that probe for understanding to create a more insightful dialogue.…
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Based on everything I have experienced, observed, and learned over the years, here’s what I think a healthy company looks like: o First-Person Plural Pronouns: Everyone thinks in terms of “serving our customers,” “what we can accomplish working together, ”…
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Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York, published by St. Martin’s Press (2013) is one of the best books I have read in several years. He and his camera have roamed the five boroughs of New York and dozens of his…
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Here is a brief excerpt from Katie Bolick’s superb interview of Joseph Epstein for The Atlantic, dated June 30, 1999. It happened once that GQ magazine was to photograph the editor and writer Joseph Epstein in his classroom at Northwestern…
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The Five Secrets of Great Speechwriting
Here is an excerpt from an article by Nick Morgan for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete artricle and check out others, please click here. * * * David McCloud, the Chief of Staff of the Governor of Virginia, taught…
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