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Preview Thursday: No Ego by Cy Wakeman

Lead Change Blog

My entry into Reality-Based Leadership started with the Open-Door Policy. Designed to prepare me for my new organizational role, it was a crash course in the current conventional wisdom around leadership. Not only was I going to have an Open-Door Policy, I was going to ace it! Shut the Conventional Door. An open door?

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Todd L. Pittinsky: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He was previously Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he served as Research Director for Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. In 2001, he launched the Allophilia [.].

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. "Hard to Believe But Impossible to Forget" [link].

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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nordic countries there is a great focus on sick leave policies.

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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Nordic countries there is a great focus on sick leave policies.

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Google: Too Big and Out-of-Control

Coaching Tip

In 2001, Page and Brin hired their first CEO, Eric Schmidt, who had a Ph.D. ("Googol" is the math term for the figure 1 followed by a hundred zeros.) And they came up with an informal company motto to signal their benign intent: "Don't be evil." Today, Google reaches billions of pages of content. .

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate. I think most celebrities and tycoons will agree.