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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. One of the concepts we discussed at Purdue was the fact that when stress hits the hot button we all tend to revert to patterns learned in our original organization, the family.

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. This is an important point for all business leaders, but in my experience, I believe marketers are particularly prone to what I call “smart syndrome.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Sayings, Meanings and Interpretations

Strategy Driven

Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Housewife | homemaker | domestic engineer. Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers. Those same consumers do their own marketing when they shop at grocery stores.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Some of the qualities that impact self-awareness are knowing who I am, where I come from, what my strengths are, how well I handle adversities, how well I seek help, and how well I am able to rein in my emotions under stress.

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It's About What Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. Now, back to your point, throw in a class after work and studying for an eight hour professional engineering exam it makes it pretty difficult to exercise and eat healthy. Energy levels are also affected.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Silver Linings for 2012

Harvard Business Review

Certainly, times are terribly stressful, and I don't mean to downplay the reality that too many employees face. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. Consider George, a CEO of a large building-engineering firm in Silicon Valley. In a way," he says, "the slower market has been a blessing.

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