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The Why, What And How Of Learning

Eric Jacobson

Keyes also served as chairman and chief executive officer of Blockbuster, Inc., from 2007 to 2011. In over 20 years since its inception, the foundation has helped nearly hundreds of thousands of students find their path to higher education.

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What Every Man Should Know About Female Colleagues

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Fortune 500 firms with the most female board members outperform those with the least by 26% on return on invested capital and 16% on return on sales, according to a 2011 Catalyst study. . Yet the number of women at the top is barely budging: some 5% of Fortune 500 chief executive officers and 17% of board members. “If

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Microsoft Office: A Competitive Advantage that Needs to be Mobile

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Chief Executive Steve Ballmer plans to take Microsoft in a new direction by shifting the company from a focus purely on software, that is downloaded onto personal computers or on corporate computing networks, into something of a hybrid of rivals Apple Inc. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2011. and Google Inc.

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From The Bench To The Boardroom

Eric Jacobson

In the new book, From the Bench to the Boardroom , Michael MacDonald shares his journey from humble beginnings in the outskirts of Philadelphia, to his college basketball career at Rutgers, to executive positions at Xerox and Medifast. As an business executive, he found the perfect environment to apply these skills.

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Creating a Great Rest of Your Life

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein is the former national executive director of the Girl Scouts of the United States and is now chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute. Management guru Peter Drucker considered Hesselbein to be the greatest executive he had ever met. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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What happens when business as usual is impossible?

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World economic losses to disasters totaled an estimated $380 billion in 2011, and nearly every major company now sets up detailed continuity and mitigation plans for everything from terrorist incidents and nuclear attacks to pandemics like bird flu. They rely on just-in-time delivery.

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Great Leaders Leverage Great Messaging | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In the business world, as a chief executive officer or entrepreneur, corporate messaging is the key to both your personal and professional positioning strategy. In today’s post I’ll share some of the messaging secrets used by the best leaders… So why is great messaging so important?

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