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"I'd Like My Life Back" -- a lesson for CEOs in building an organization that listens to warnings

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Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. Before the 2010 disaster, Hayward was described as "unassuming and modest." NPR.org – "Before Gulf Spill, BP CEO Tony Hayward Won Praise" – by Jim Zarroli – June 17, 2010 2.

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

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Learn to assess what skills you lack and what skills you should outsource to set yourself up for the greatest amount of success Derek Lidow is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS.

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The Power in Vulnerability

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This shift may have started in 2010 when Brené Brown, a sociological research professor, published The Gifts of Imperfection , and perhaps took off with her next book Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead in 2012. The message was clear. He currently lives in Morristown, NJ.

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Stop Bad Email, But Not All Email

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From a big picture perspective, the facts on email tell quite a story: • In 2010, roughly 107 trillion emails were sent – 294 billion emails every day (Pingdom.com). • As leaders, we see the impacts first hand: employee stress, inefficiency in the workplace, work-life balance concerns and the list goes on.