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Six of My Favorite Books of the Year

Kevin Eikenberry

Start with Why by Simon Sinek. Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin Here is my original recommendation.

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People Do Business With You…But Why?

Women on Business

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Is it because of WHAT you do or is it because of WHY you do it?

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Simon Sinek refers to this as well when he describes his “golden circle” concept, telling us that working and leading from “why” (the reason an organization exists) is deeply rooted in our biology, as it connects deep within people’s brains – their limbic systems – the seat of basic human emotion. Leadership and Management. References.

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THE GAUNTLET HAS BEEN THROWN DOWN

Women in the LEAD

  Business, professionals, academics, innovators, entrepreneurs, governments and public bodies alike have to care and have to take up these challenges practically. The Forum was held on 15-17 October 2009 under the theme "Think again, think ahead! It is time for action change and hope." 

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

A lot of the work and innovation coming out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is created for military usage, but then becomes commercialized for business application (this includes computer networking and the first hypertext system, which was an early form of the graphical user interface).