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Top 12 Development Goals for Leaders

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To help you get a head start on your 2010 leadership development plan, here’s a list of development goals that may apply to you too. Do not attempt to work on all 12, just because there are 12 months in a year. (-: For 2010, I’d like to improve my: 1. Industry, competitive, and customer knowledge. Strategic thinking.

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

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School can also teach you industry-specific skills. Your chosen field or industry has so much more to teach you and many years to do it. These things teach us how to dive in and hunker down. This teaches us about accountability and performance. School can teach us how to channel stress and define how we behave under pressure.

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Eight Ways Mentoring Brings Out the Leader in Your Employees

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We might even use industry-specific words that sound like we really know our stuff. Alper was honored as the 2010 NFTE Philanthropist of the Year, DC region and currently sits on the National Board. As adults, we often focus on our achievements when discussing our careers with others.

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Why Hippies Make Great Business Leaders

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By the end of the decade, Fred had opened the nation’s first organic/natural supermarket, café, trade union, and distribution center – almost single-handedly engineering what has become a $200 billion-plus collection of industries devoted to selling and distributing natural/organic food. billion men’s accessory fashion industry.

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Ten Years After Ford’s Spectacular Turnaround, What Alan Mulally Reveals About Brand-Inspired Cultural Revolution

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In 2010, Motor Trend named one of Ford’s newest cars, the Ford Fusion, “Car of the Year.” Within a year, the entire organization's energy toward the Ford brand had been reinvigorated and executives throughout the company had begun to adopt Mulally’s focused and data- driven approach. And the company posted annual profits of $6.6

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