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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Neil Steggall and featured by LinkedIn Pulse. To check out all the other resources, please click here. * * * Reaching the top in business requires you to develop and utilise…
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It was obvious to everyone in the audience when Adm. Bill McRaven spoke at the University of Texas’s commencement address this weekend: Adm. Bill McRaven is a bad-ass — and fount of good advice. Head of the Joint U.S. Special…
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The first eleven rules were concerned with getting the right idea. The next fourteen are concerned with getting the idea right. This is the work of bending, shaping, and polishing your idea so it aligns with its purpose. This is…
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According to Michael Marquardt in Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask (Second Edition), asking the right questions is one of the most important — and yet most under-appreciated — skills that executives…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Nicholas Kristof for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * WHEN terrorists in Nigeria organized a…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Yvonne Sell and Georg Vielmetter for Talent Management magazine. In it, they explain why a business landscape transformed by today’s global megatrends will require a different kind of leadership. To read…
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The concept is so simple and yet so difficult, it seems, for most people to embrace: We have two eyes and two ears but only one mouth so we should, therefore, spend 80% of our time listening and observing, and…
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Humans of New York is among the best books I have read in recent years. It features Brandon Stanton’s photos and comments by/about people in the five boroughs of NYC. First, a sample; then a link to his website. “My…
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Here is a brief excerpt from a classic article written by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, he proposes four guidelines to help strategic planners make the crucial leap from plans…
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“Can you perform under pressure?”
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Kate Kane for Fast Company magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Question: What do the navy Seals, the…
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