You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← The Story of a Great Leader Getting to the Heart of Mental Toughness → February 9, 2010 · 7:42 pm ↓ Jump to Comments Trust: If You Build It, They Will Come…and Stay Trust. And that scene in City Slickers is one of my favorites.

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Blog Budgeting Competitive Advantage Crisis 43

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JANUARY 24, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post about the forces of competition and market change that are affecting the legal profession, causing many firms to now take the once unthinkable step of letting even senior partners go if they can't produce sufficient revenues to contribute to the firm's bottom lines (as reported in the Wall Street Journal ).

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Creativity Short-term Trends Education 8

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Just as poison ivy does not directly cause irritation, but spoofs our immune system into thinking our own skin is the enemy, careless reporting can cause more harm than good. And clear reporting in this sphere is so rare that I am aware of only one example. Now back to the subject at hand; reporting. It is around 100.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Andy O’Connell Career Ladder to Nowhere? First there''s the phenomenon of "frenetic networking-by-vague-association" in which you pretend to know people you want to be associated with, a system that creates an online "Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder." That would only tip off the mendacious.

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Review CFO PR Analysis 8

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

million university graduates entered the job market in 2010 , up from one million in 1999. China's news services reported that in 2009 a record 1 million people took the national civil service exam , up from 775,000 in 2008 and 500,000 in 2005. The rewards were there, but they came at a high price. More than 6.4 What's going on?

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Travel Survey Marketing Budgeting 9

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JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. They reported $0.42 Early on in my career, I had a boss who discounted my ability to connect with clients. I'll report back here about my experiences in the comments; I hope you will too.

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Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth.

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Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

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MAY 31, 2012

Bribery Act of 2010 makes the FCPA look meek by comparison and the UN Convention Against Corruption has spurred the European Union, China, and others to establish corporate integrity standards of their own. Although considerable damage had been done, Wal-Mart could have reported itself then to U.S. Commit to zero tolerance and say so.

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Execution Retail Report Policies 12

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Annually, my firm ManpowerGroup conducts a global Talent Shortage Survey [pdf] , and remarkably, from 2010 to 2011, the percentage of employers in the U.S. reporting difficulty filling jobs jumped from 14% to 52%. But the fact is that these employers do report a "lack of available talent." million open jobs.

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Competitive Advantage Budgeting Construction Open-book 11

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JUNE 24, 2013

This is made worse by depressed home prices and the high cost of living in places like Silicon Valley and New York City — where tech job demand is high. In a report titled " The Search for Skills ," Neil Ruiz, Jill Wilson, and Shyamali Choudhury of the Brookings Institution analyzed demand for H-1B workers in metropolitan areas.

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Skills Globalization Engineering Industry 8

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AUGUST 8, 2016

Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020. Bloomberg reports that the American solar industry had a record first quarter in 2016, and for the first time, it drove the majority of new power generation.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. When viewed through the lens of the U.S. There was much less in true economic value generated by innovation than was expected.

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Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Women's Leadership Exchange

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Big Brother Proves Bully Bosses Dont Win on TV or in the Office What Business Women Can Learn from George Steinbrenner What is Your New Business Model for 2010? Reader Comments Posted: December 13, 2010, 07:04 AM by Hello every one Last night I had an "aha" experience. No, that wasnt the "aha.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

This could be written off as an isolated situation except that it followed a news report on congressional staffers contending with unwritten rules restricting female aides from one-on-one sessions with male members of Congress, including meetings, driving, and staffing out-of-office events. .” Confidence offers another example.

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Mentor Self-aware Report Bottom-up 8