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A Quote for the Day, from Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf

First Friday Book Synopsis

{My blogging will be intermittent for a few days — we will have family with us for the holidays. After yesterday’s ghastly event in Connecticut, I will be glad to see my grown sons and our granddaughters…} So, here’s a quote for the day from Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and [.].

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The Real Test of a Leader – “We Admit, We’ve Been Wrong. We Apologize.”

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To our customers,?? At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to [.].

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“I Just Wasn’t Ready” – Spielberg on Why It Takes a While to be Ready to Communicate Your Most Important Message(s)

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Here’s what I think. If you prepare a speech/presentation, and what you have to pull from is what you read for that particular speech, you’re not yet ready… The best speakers speak from “overflow.” They have this reservoir of material – books and essays they have read, speeches they have heard, life (with all of [.].

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Leaders are Not Trained; Not Developed; Leaders are “Made Ready”

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Leaders are Trained; Developed; Leaders are “Made Ready” A friend sent me this article from Forbes: The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails by Mike Myatt. Here are a couple of important and provocative sentences. You don’t train leaders you develop them – a subtle yet important distinction lost on many… The terms training and development [.].

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“How can our organization eliminate waste?”

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In a previous blog post, I posed a question I frequently encounter: “What if I can’t afford to retain a consultant?” I offered to provide — at no expense, of course — some suggestions as to how to solve an especially troublesome problem or how to take full advantage of an especially promising business opportunity. Several dozen [.].

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/10/12)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Turn the Ship Around!: How to Create Leadership at Every Level L. David Marquet The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution Charles R. Morris Selling to China: A Guide to Doing Business in China [.].

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“The Top 100 Speeches” throughout United States history

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If you click here you can check out “The Top 100 Speeches” at the American Rhetoric website. Better yet, you can click on any/all of the 100 speeches and read the text. And even better yet, you can click on any/all of them and download a pdf for your own personal media library. Here are the [.].

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