2012 Career Construction Leadership 
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2019
He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.” That’s why Fortune ’s editors named it as the ultimate in their 2012 book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time.
The Practical Leader
JULY 9, 2012
Later this month, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games get underway in London, England. He never lost a race from 1957 – 1961 and broke the four minute mile 17 times during his career. Coubertin felt that could be a model for international cooperation and rechanneling competition more constructively.
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
DECEMBER 3, 2012
The results of The 2012 Towers Watson Global Workforce Study indicate that 43% of the global workforce is either detached or actively disengaged. Consider the difference in engagement between the construction worker who saw his job as laying bricks and the worker who saw his job as building a cathedral. But the news is not good.
Marshall Goldsmith
APRIL 14, 2014
At this point in my career, he was clearly the most important person in my professional life. Keep trying to make a constructive difference, but do it in a way that is positive for you and the people around you. Leadership' He had done amazing work to help the city become a better place, and also was doing a lot to help me.
Leading Blog
MARCH 27, 2023
Expectations run high when a family looks to its young members to take the necessary steps to assume leadership and/or ownership of the family enterprise. Some may want to pursue a career separate from the family enterprise, while some who join the family business may feel an extra level of intensity around performance expectations.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 22, 2015
A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. In high school, students who would ultimately enter finance were much more likely to take leadership positions in varsity sports and student clubs like community service, student government, and student publications.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
In 2012 Wired magazine included Krakauer on its list of 50 people who will change the world. Encouraging rigorous, constructive debate is indispensable to navigating challenges of high uncertainty, from extending the bounds of knowledge to scaling a business. Shepherding this transdisciplinary work is Krakauer’s job.
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