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2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk

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  After all, what's the market for six figure sports cars?  "  If you're Elon Musk, you'll probably need a little more time to answer than the average leader to answer that question. Tesla is best known for its very hot $100k electric battery powered roadster that goes from 0 to 60 in under four seconds.

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Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders

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» June 22, 2010 Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders One of the things that makes a strategy book really useful is when it introduces a model that you can use to organize your thinking for years to come. It’s The Discipline of Market Leaders. | Main | Who’s The Boss? This week’s VBC feature did that for me.

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How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View

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Magazine » December 06, 2010 How to Drive Change with a Leadership Point of View Every so often, The New York Times will run a long feature on the CEO of a large business.    Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005.    That was a start.

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

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Posted by: Nancy Collamer | December 01, 2010 at 06:35 PM Many thanks Nancy. My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market. Posted by: Scott Eblin | December 01, 2010 at 07:23 PM Great post and reflections, Scott!

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What Don Draper and Gordon Gekko Have to Teach Us

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Over the past four years, Mad Men , with its lead character, advertising exec Don Draper, has become more and more popular as evidenced by ratings, buzz and marketing tie-ins.   While that statement may be true in the fictional realm, it’s definitely true in the literal realm. .  It was number one at the box office.

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What Am I Supposed To Be Learning From This?

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Main | Video Book Club: The Discipline of Market Leaders » June 21, 2010 What Am I Supposed To Be Learning From This? Love your work, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell Posted by: Dan Rockwell | June 21, 2010 at 12:17 PM Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview. Sneaky Peers?

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What a Week for Departures: HP's Hurd, Jet Blue's Slater and.

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Last Friday, Hewlett Packard announced that its CEO, Mark Hurd, had resigned after an internal investigation showed that he had submitted false expense reports related to time that he spent with a female marketing consultant to the company. As the New York Times reported , the consultant first filed sexual harassment charges against Hurd.