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Life's Aha! Moments Encourage Introspection and a Search for Meaning

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Which brings up a couple of questions that are addressed in a new book entitled, " How Will You Measure Your Life? " Then, on Sunday, July 18, 2010, lightning struck a third time. The book is provocative but reassuring: Peter Drucker meets Mitch Albom. How Should High Achievers Think? While Christensen spoke at a 6:30 a.m.

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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

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The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Unfortunately, the Borders CEO didn''t recognize that the Internet was changing everything.including the book retail business. While sales at U.S.

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The Ambition Gap

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Before 2010, “if you didn’t work a full year, it was very hard to get the top [performance] ranking,” remembers Jennifer Allyn, the firm’s diversity-strategy leader. PwC LLP, the U.S. arm of a global professional-services firm, came up with a different strategy to reduce fears about taking family time. Sheryl Sandberg .

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Integrated Marketing and Social Networks

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gutted by the Internet, threatened by electronic books and plagued by inconsistent management - filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, 40 years after Borders started as a used bookstore on South State Street here in Ann Arbor, MI. billion in 2010, according to research firm eMarketer. Borders Group Inc., of the U.S.

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CEOs work to keep key employees

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Mr. Charan has written or co-written 17 management books—mostly about strategy and leadership. Source: The Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2010. CEOs of major U.S. companies "do not really put even 15% of their time into the people-development equation, and that's far less than needed,'' Mr. Charan says. Four became best sellers.

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Tablet Leadership Competition

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In January 2010, the iPad demonstrated the broad appeal of a new kind of color LCD tablet with better image quality, wider viewing angles, and, near to Amazon’s heart, Apple’s own selection of e-books. About 40 percent of Amazon’s revenues comes from media—books, music, and movies—and those formats are rapidly going digital.

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NeuroLeadership Summit

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Herrmann-Nehdi has been a speaker at previous NeuroLeadership Summits and filed this video report from the 2010 event in Boston. Books Communication Leadership Science What is' The 2013 Americas Neuroleadership Summit, “The Neuroscience of Leadership Effectiveness,” will take place November 5-8. Can''t Get Enough Leadership.