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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

The January 2011 issue of my newsletter featured a selection of hilariously inaccurate predictions about 1993 made in 1893, a few funny failed predictions from the 1400s to 2000s, and a short list of insanely wrong comments (e.g. A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change.

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What Great Companies Know About Culture

Harvard Business Review

Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. This means that employees and senior leadership alike should ensure that the brand is understood inside and out by customers and other stakeholders.

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