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

Michael Lee Stallard

Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy. The Value Bridge Admiral Clark described his strategy as using the Navy’s “asymmetrical advantages” of the “best technology in the world” combined with the “genius of our people.”

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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What the U.S. Should Be Doing to Protect Intellectual Property

Harvard Business Review

Numerous countries, from Singapore to Japan, have established intellectual-property strategies aimed at achieving the greatest possible public benefits from their companies’ innovative ideas, primarily by ensuring that home-grown technologies become globally dominant in their fields. For example, in the late 1980s, a U.S.

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Successful Movements All Have 3 Acts

Harvard Business Review

You describe your vision vividly and compellingly so that your fellow travelers long to see it become reality. In a 2005 speech to Apple developers, Steve Jobs announced that the Macintosh would no longer be using the PowerPC processor and would shift to the Intel platform. Show them that the rewards justify the risk.

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David-and-Goliath Partnerships Bring Innovation to Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. In 2005, McKesson invested in a David called RelayHealth that was in the connectivity business before connectivity was hot. Buy-in from the Goliath’s top leadership was critical.

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A (Not So) Magic Formula For Sustainable Business Excellence

Terry Starbucker

I’d multiply your equation by 1/(11-Sy), where Sy equals the effectiveness of your systems (organizational structure, technology, process controls, etc.), As I continue to remind my blog readers, if you aren’t excellent, you’ll soon be put out of business by social media. ranked on a 1-10 scale. Cosell note his passing.

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