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The Personal Strength of Thoroughness - The Devil Is in the Details

Building Personal Strength

Fortunately, the Duke University library had a massive fiction collection; but they didn’t have Cheever’s first book of short stories, The Way Some People Live, published by Random House in 1943. The Duke library didn’t have a copy, but they located one in the Harvard University library. Coates, Ph.D., , Copyright 2010.

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Open-mindedness - Let the New Knowledge In

Building Personal Strength

Twenty years ago, 360-degree feedback surveys - which make it easy for you to get feedback from the people who work around you - were different than they are today. We also felt that a rigid set of survey questions didn’t make sense. No survey can be valid for every organization. Copyright 2010. Post by Dennis E.

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

Strategy Driven

In fact, surveys over the years have regularly put fear of public speaking right up there with fear of heights, fear of insects, and even fear of death. Additional Information This is the second of a series of articles, developed exclusively for StrategyDriven , that highlights the breadth and depth of Communispond’s LearnTO Library.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? We found that 49 percent of the leaders surveyed in the study reported a gap between their organization’s ability to formulate and communicate a vision and strategy and its ability to deliver results. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing? Are financials on track?

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.