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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. Believe it or not, this is my number one leadership/management related post. Expect to hear much more from her in 2013.".

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The 7 Most Popular Leadership and Communication Blog Posts of 2013

leaderCommunicator

I’ve reviewed our blog posts from 2013, and I love seeing which topics and interests resonated with you. Here are the top 7 most popular blog posts of 2013, counting down from number 7: Number 7: 8 Tips for Leadership When Communicating During Tough Times. It was quite the mix—ranging from body language to employee disengagement.

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What are the best cryptocurrency exchanges in the world?

Strategy Driven

In 2013, Zhao joined the Blockchain.info team as a member of a group working on a portfolio dedicated to cryptocurrencies. Coinbase was born in 2012 and its creators are Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. In 2005, he founded the company Fusion Systems, which created, among others high frequency trading systems for brokers.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. What made the typically affable Armstrong snap?

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The first which I attended was at the Armstrong-Johnson Ford dealership. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. He told me that I must think like a world-class visionary, grow into the role and not just remain a radio DJ. In 1959, radio stations used to do live remotes from advertisers’ locations.

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When a Public Mistake Requires an Old-Fashioned Apology

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. On August 9, 2013 — a time of disappointing quarterly results — he held an all-hands conference call with 1,000 Patch (AOL’s hyper-local news division) employees. This “brutal” firing created a firestorm of negative publicity both for AOL and for Armstrong.

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How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

Harvard Business Review

But some CEOs have managed to resist these tendencies. ” Yana Kakar, Global Managing Partner of Dalberg, reserves 3 two-hour blocks of time for reflection each week. By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%. When one is “on,” the other is “off.”

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