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At the Core of Your Abilities - Personal Strengths and People Skills

Building Personal Strength

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 At the Core of Your Abilities - Personal Strengths and People Skills I once had an upscale retirement home for a client. In other words, he had poor people skills. As everyone knows, the stock market tanked a few years ago when "the real estate bubble" burst. Bad things happen.

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Relationships and Red Flags - A Learning Experience

Building Personal Strength

Ultimately, his daddy got tired of this project, and the son had to cram to get his real estate license. Besides, companies need to develop their own plans. You can help them, but they have real-world experience in the business and they need to buy into the plan. He had never had to strive. Visioning comes first.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

A recent story in the New York Times highlighted a pair of high school students who had experienced considerable success as app developers. Unfortunately, app development came at the expense of schoolwork, resulting in a sharp decline in one developer’s grades as the pair headed into the college application season.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. The simple truth is that people strongly desire to work with and for great leaders.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

Because business is fraught with many risks and challenges, and because this journey isn’t right for everyone, I’ve developed some questions that will help you get more clarity so you can make better decisions for yourself when it comes to starting a business. We were actually slowly growing rich, but we felt pretty poor.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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Solving Facebook's Customer Advocacy Challenge, and Yours

Harvard Business Review

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. For the most part, they haven't yet developed the skills necessary to build such genuine engagement. Building customer communities.