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Be Bold In Life.

Rich Gee Group

You know when you get so caught up in your career and life you forget things? I was going through some papers that take me back to 2001-2002 and I saw this phrase, “Be Bold In Life&#. Staying in your safe, boring job or taking a new, challenging position — Jump ship. Well I did. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. I can’t help but wonder: If Kodak had paid attention to its aging workforce trend, would the company have maintained market share and avoided bankruptcy?

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

And then I put those lessons to work in my own business and climbing careers. Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.

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10 Characteristics Of High-Performing Teams

Tim Milburn

Ron Ricci , co-author of The Collaboration Imperative , is the vice president of corporate positioning and has spent the last decade helping Cisco develop and nurture a culture of sharing and collaborative processes. Job satisfaction goes up, employees stay engaged in their work and everybody wins. Authors Bio.

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Behaviors of Collaborative Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

What are the consequences -- positive or negative -- of that accountability? But are your resources truly applied as optimally as possible to your market opportunities in a way that best serves the total business? By unlocking these trapped resources, organizations can more quickly and successfully pursue emerging market opportunities.

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Flaming Out and Fighting Back

Harvard Business Review

I was at the seven-year mark in my career as a college professor and I was turned down for tenure. As I packed up my office — having lost both my job and my babies — it struck me that the peak demand of many female careers, not just mine, clashed and collided in the worst way with the urgent demands of the biological clock.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.