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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…
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Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Crown Business (2015) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey Angela Lee Duckworth is among the sources that Linda…
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Here are ten of my favorite Steve Jobs quotations: o Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And…
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The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson, Pat Spenner, and Nick Toman Portfolio/Penguin Random House (September 2015) How re-writing the rules enables “the best companies to connect with current customers,…
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Decoding the Workplace: 50 Keys to Understanding People in Organizations John Ballard Praeger/An Imprint of ABC-CLO A brilliant explanation of why not all messages sent are received and not all messages received are understood Perhaps the single greatest challenge that…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Driek Desmet, Ewan Duncan, Jay Scanlan, and Marc Singer for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…
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Here are ten of my favorite Gates quotations: o Our vision for the last 20 years [i.e. since 1975] can be summarized in a succinct way. We saw that exponential improvements in computer capabilities would make great software quite valuable.…
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Brian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, and organizational pioneer. Forbes and Fast Company credit him for developing Holacracy, a comprehensive management system for governing and running organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free…
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In The Creator’s Code, Amy Wilkinson asserts that all of the most creative people in business “share certain fundamental approaches to the act of creation. The skills that make them successful can be learned, practiced, and passed on.” Each is…
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Crucibles of Leadership
Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Warren Bennis and Robert J. Thomas, published in the September 2002 issue of Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription…
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