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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Often this meant trying to read Mapquest directions while driving on a highway or in the dark.

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International Travel as Education, Adventure and Service

Chris Brady

My first airline flight didn't occur until age 19 when I went to pick up a car in Oklahoma. Mostly, however, I stayed close to home in the good old Flint area. Then it all changed. I spent some time in Texas as a student, then attended grad school in Pittsburgh, then went to finish my Master's degree in Toyohashi, Japan.

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The Best Leaders Have Fun

Chris Brady

Other leaders have established fun as a pervasive element in their very corporate culture (Southwest Airlines and Zappos come to mind). "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing," wrote Dale Carnegie. Tense moments were diffused, heaviness was lifted, and optimism was restored through simple gestures of fun.

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Caption Contest 2011.1 and a Winner Announced!

Chris Brady

" Posted by: Johnson Family |  November 21, 2010 at 02:02 PM Simply comment on this blog with your mailing address and you'll receive your signed copy of Orrin Woodward and my L aunching a Leadership Revolution. and a Winner Announced! and a Winner Announced! showed the widest range of responses. Great job everyone!

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

When testing ideas are part of the creative process for product, service, or business development, this triangle must be a business priority: To test product, watch prospects interact with it—whether they use a tool, read a book, choose a necklace, or scan an airline ticket. Design stems from USE.

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Tommy Boy’s Debut

Steve Farber

We need something specific from the other person–an airline ticket, or lunch, or help with a question. We might confide that our marriage is failing, or discuss private, sensitive details about our finances with such a friend. Excerpted from It’s Not Just Who You Know by Tommy Spaulding © 2010 Thomas J. Spaulding Jr.

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Competing on Service: Eleven Ways to Beat the Competition by ‘Hugging’ Your Customers

Strategy Driven

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.