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Are We (Boomers) Really In The Middle Of Middle Age – As Diana Nyad Says? If So, Then What Next?

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News item: Diana Nyad is out to swim from Cuba to Key West– in one 60 hour swim. At the age of 61. There is ego involved, of course. But her swim has helped her turn a corner, she said, adding that she hopes it will empower others her age. “I hope a couple will [.].

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Five Reasons Why the Talent Leaves

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Here is a brief commentary from Berrett-Koehler, the publisher of a new book that I highly recommend. In Make Talent Your Business: How Exceptional Managers Develop People While Getting Results, Wendy Axelrod and Jeannie Coyle’s explore how talent development can best be facilitated by the managers with whom the “talented and gifted&# work every day. [.].

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Repeat It Until they Mock You – a Key Task of an Attentive Leader

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“Until your people are mocking you, you’ve not repeated your message enough.” Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits ——- Each semester, I handout copies of the full text of I Have a Dream, the great speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. I take a fresh copy myself, and I have us work through the speech, [.].

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Retrain Your Brain

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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Every leader faces a share of irritating screw-ups and minor setbacks. In response to those annoyances, some leaders get irritable and stressed out. Others keep on moving. [.].

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Voice of Experience: Denise M. Grant (Shearman & Sterling)

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Here is an excerpt from a profile of Denise M. Grant (Partner, Project Development & Finance Group, Shearman & Sterling) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, [.].

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Adam Bryant: An interview by Bob Morris

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Adam Bryant is the deputy national editor of The New York Times, and works with reporters in many of the Times‘ domestic bureaus. He also conducts interviews with CEOs and other leaders for Corner Office, a weekly feature in the Sunday Business section and on nytimes.com that he started in March 2009. He is the author of [.].

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Five Lessons You Can Learn From the World’s Most Admired Companies

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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mel Stark and Mark Royal for Talent Management magazine (5/10/2011). To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Experts from Hay Group, which partnered with [.].