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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

What to Ask the Person in the Mirror : Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential by Robert Steven Kaplan. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2010. Better Under Pressure : How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others by Justin Menkes. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

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BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas Published by Michael Lee Stallard on September 15, 2010 06:16 pm under connection culture Life is good! Military Gamification in Everything? why is everyone smiling?

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Conquer Your Nerves with Eye-Brain Control To Make a Strong.

Strategy Driven

He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., Well, you’re not alone. It’s well known that public speaking or presenting is one of the scariest activities for businesspeople. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc., a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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Here's Why Successful Presentations Planning Must Begin with an.

Strategy Driven

He also served as President of Kaplan College, a division of Kaplan Inc., If you have, the chances are the presenter didn’t spend enough time thinking about you, the audience member, as he created his message. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc., a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

For example, most in the art world agreed that sculptor Janet Echelman's "Water Sky Garden," created for the speed-skating site at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, was decidedly different. Of course, by itself, sheer novelty doesn't make something creative. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."

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What Does Your Perfect Day Look Like?

Harvard Business Review

Ami Kaplan is a Senior Partner at Deloitte, advising some of the firm's largest global clients on business, risk management and other financial and organizational challenges. Sometimes it's far more realistic to build a solid foundation and then renovate our plans as we go. So how about you? What does your perfect day look like?

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business Review

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010. As Zingales’s University of Chicago colleague Steven Kaplan wrote in a separate paper , Facebook and its fellow tech giants “used market forces to their advantage, are profitable as a result, and certainly now enjoy some market power. Then Netflix happened. Take Facebook as an example.