Sat.Oct 01, 2011 - Fri.Oct 07, 2011

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The Impact of Trust

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By Guest Author David Horsager. I had been speaking and producing events around the world on a broader scope of topics. As I visited many different types of companies, I began to wonder what the greatest of these companies and leaders had in common. I noticed the impact of trust on both leadership and the bottom line. With great interest, I began my graduate research on this topic and realized that being trusted really is the greatest asset of any leader or organization.

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My Personal Coach

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The concept of a coach is slippery. Coaches are not teachers, but they teach. They’re not your boss—in professional tennis, golf, and skating, the athlete hires and fires the coach—but they can be bossy. They don’t even have to be good at the sport. The famous Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi couldn’t do a split if his life depended on it. Mainly, they observe, they judge, and they guide.

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Are Leaders Born or Made?

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By Guest Author Jack Zenger. Few things in my life have the consistency of the following exchange. . Stranger: “So what do you do for a living?”. Me: “I’m involved in the leadership development profession. We usually work with large organizations in developing their leaders, using a variety of programs and instruments.”.

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Tablet Leadership Competition

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Making four successive versions of the Kindle e-reader also led Amazon down the path toward the Kindle Fire. For years the engineers at Lab126 tried to create a workable and reader-friendly color Kindle, according to three former employees. In January 2010, the iPad demonstrated the broad appeal of a new kind of color LCD tablet with better image quality, wider viewing angles, and, near to Amazon’s heart, Apple’s own selection of e-books.

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Who was Steven P. Jobs?

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If you had listened to Steven P. Jobs' presentations over the years, he came across not as the creator of a product so much as its very first fan--the first person to digest its possibilities. Before his hiatus from Apple, in 1985, his entrepreneurial meddling and micromanagement had gotten out of control. But the years away reportedly helped him develop his leadership style and begin ceding more responsibilities to others.