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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Maria Popova for her website, Brain Pickings. Her focus is on Angela Duckworth and her assertion that “character is at least as important as intellect.” To read the complete article,…
Read MoreOut Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes G. Shawn Hunter Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) How and why innovative leadership must “leverage a culture that will stop at nothing to fix bad ideas and stomp out mediocrity Shawn Hunter wrote…
Read MoreLiz Wiseman has co-authored two especially important books: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter with Greg Mckeown, and, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools with Lois Allen and Elise Foster. In both, she discusses two…
Read MoreA buffet awaits: o “Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” Albert Camus o “By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.” Richard Dawkins o “I am…
Read MoreThe Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson bibliomotion books + media (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison According to William Ferguson, “After interviewing the eleven titans for this book,…
Read MoreAdam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Jonathan Klein, C.E.O. of Getty…
Read MoreThe CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership Martha Heller bibliomotion (2013) The CIO “for all seasons” Rather than one paradox, as this book’s title suggests, Martha Heller rigorously and eloquently examines several separate but related paradoxes: Cost versus…
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How Caterpillar Transforms People Into Butterflies
Here is an excerpt from an article written by Deanna Hartley for Talent Management magazine. In it, she explains how and why CHRO Kimberly Hauer and her associates help Caterpillar employees to maximize their contributions through leadership development and diversity initiatives…
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