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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

What’s more, military personnel have soft skills that the private sector also values, problem solving, team building, crisis management, dealing with ambiguity, collaboration, and creative thinking among them. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

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Why Every CEO Needs a Leadership Coach

Coaching Tip

Every Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is "on the stage" the majority of his or her work life but needs pre-performance quiet and confidential time to be creative, bounce their ideas off someone in a safe environment, and explore the unintended consequences of their future actions. He was pretty experienced. Why would he need a coach?

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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. Be proactive.

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What Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves When an Economic Crisis Hits

Harvard Business Review

When you’ve invested some of the best years of your life in a company, changes in the macroeconomic environment can be particularly tricky to navigate. I interviewed them about one of the last big crises for startups: the dot-com crash of 2000-2001. David Kenny, then CEO of Digitas, a U.S.-based

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"Having It All" Is Not a Women's Issue

Harvard Business Review

helping young people choose careers that fit their values. creating work environments that value employees as whole people. act with creativity by continually experimenting with how goals are achieved. changing society's gender ideology through education and socialization. teaching employees how to generate support from others.

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Fixing the Malaise in U.S. High Tech

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is the use of creativity to solve real customer problems. If you want those new creative concepts to come forward, you must foster a corporate culture that incorporates five leadership principles of innovation: 1. Early on in my career I wondered what made people put their whole hearts and souls into their work.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. By 2001, many charities that were still counting on pledged donations and found themselves left in a lurch (though it was also their fault for not casting other nets for funding and being too dependent upon Enron). All rights reserved.