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Holding Powerful & Arrogant Bosses Accountable

Coaching Tip

Mr. Winston joined Countrywide in May 2005, when the lender was riding the mortgage wave. Winston still recalls an episode from late 2005 that raised red flags for him. Source: The New York Times, February 20, 2011. 4, he won: a jury in California awarded him $3.8 million in damages.

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EBay CEO Meg Whitman to Retire :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. She joined eBay in 1998 and now, 10 years later, she’s following her own advice and leaving the company she helped drive to online success. Whitman took the helm when eBay employed only a few dozen people.

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

However, all hope is not lost for Canadian businesswomen. In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% That means some of those women could be on the right path to move into corporate executive positions in the future.

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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

Next Level Blog

  Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    One answer that is available to leaders who don’t possess miraculous powers is to recruit some disciples to help spread the point of view.    Immelt has done that repeatedly since 2005

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My First Blog Post

Tim Milburn

Here’s what I wrote on January 12, 2005: Most people don’t usually make a difference on accident. Short blog posts were great in 2005 and continue to be great in 2010. One Less Option New Word: Critischism Choosing Three Words for 2011 You can subscribe to the RSS feed of timmilburn.com by clicking here.

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The Two-Second Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future — Just Enough Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney Crown Business (2011) The power of prediction-based talent: Intuition on “the other side of complexity” At least a century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, “I don’t care a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity but [.].

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The Two-Second Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future–Just Enough Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney Crown Business (2011) The power of prediction-based talent: Intuition on “the other side of complexity” At least a century ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, “I don’t care a fig for simplicity on this side of complexity (..)

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