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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead.

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Nonprofits Need to Compete for Top Talent

Harvard Business Review

As the head of Year Up, a social enterprise that has grown rapidly since 2001 (we have a 49% average annual growth rate in students served), I'd like to share what I've learned about going head to head with for-profit enterprises to secure the best talent. This isn't just added compensation.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area.

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6 Q Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

They make life sacrifices to climb the organizational career ladder. People like Goleman , Boyatzis , and Spencer (2001) all report that this skill set is often missing. Most who get there have this set of skills. MQ – Motivational Quotient Top leaders are super-motivated. They are ambitious. They work long hours. They travel a lot.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

The When I Grow Up spot tapped into growing societal angst over the cubicle careers on offer in mainstream professional life and was the only commercial named to Time Magazine’s Best of TV list for that year. It worked: venture capital poured in and the growth propelled the company to a $436 million sale to Yahoo in 2001.

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