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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

For most of my prior career, I was a woman who: was happily married, may never have children, would earn a six figure income, was a loyal employee, was an over achiever, traveled to exotic places, would live in my dream home, and wanted to be involved in the highly charged corporate world forever! Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

Strategy Driven

How well do you know your employees’ skills, work ethic, and willingness to embrace change? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Do you have in them the imagination needed to help you flesh out a vision for the company’s future, and the skills needed to help make that vision a reality?

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Over the course of 2009, I (Michael) met with and interviewed Admiral Clark and several of the Naval officers who reported to him.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Storage Technology Corporation (“StorageTek”) and U S WEST Inc.

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Don't Forget To Take Your Happy Pill

Terry Starbucker

And so it goes…… My life has recently “accelerated” to this dizzying pace (not that it was calm before this, but let’s just say I’m now traveling at Warp 2 instead of Warp 1), and this morning, something finally dawned on me. Tweet This Post Tagged as: happiness Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } TLW 016: Ethics? What ethics?

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What HoloLens Has That Google Glass Didn’t

Harvard Business Review

You might as well be on a feature phone in 2005. Doesn’t this face the same ethics and social challenges as Glass? This is precisely what made Glass vulnerable to the ethical and social issues that dogged it. Retail, travel, automotive, financial services, all of these will be obvious fits.