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Byron Wien’s 20 Lessons Learned

Michael Lee Stallard

Do the numbers crunching in the early phase of your career. Short-cuts can be construed as sloppiness, a career killer. When seeking a career as you come out of school or making a job change, always take the job that looks like it will be the most enjoyable. Try to think of your life in phases so you can avoid a burn-out.

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Why the Health of Your Doctor Matters

Michael Lee Stallard

His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” Shortly after, the prescription fraud was discovered and it led to the loss of his medical license in 2006. As his addiction grew overtime to taking 20-30 pills a day, he turned to writing prescriptions in his children’s and friends’ names to feed a growing habit.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

When Warren Buffett retired from Coca-Cola’s board in 2006, he said he no longer had the time necessary. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012. In 2004, he joined the board of Petsmart Inc.,

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Privacy is a Luxury You Don't Have

Harvard Business Review

I remember my first taste of social networking — a 2004 invitation to join Friendster. Fast forward to the spring of 2006, when I was teaching a course at Emerson College. But for most people, at least in the U.S., But in an ever-more connected era, it's likely that illusion will rapidly give way to an unspoken mandate to engage.

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Why We Shouldn't Bank on Growth

Harvard Business Review

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. Might our inability to understand the inherent nature of growth as unsustainable also be affecting our ability to navigate investing, economic, and career uncertainty?

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

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Helping People Achieve Their Goals

Marshall Goldsmith

Research reported in the Fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business shows that the long-term follow-up and involvement of coworkers tends to be highly correlated with positive change in the perceived effectiveness of leaders. 39 (Winter 2006): 24-29. Coworkers are no different from anyone else. Maintenance.

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