Leading Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. I want to focus on a critical, but often difficult skill that we all need to develop: cognitive reappraisal. Every setback is an opportunity to develop this mindset until it becomes a habit.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 3, 2018

And he was glad he did—he found old photos from wild college parties on his Facebook account, and some ancient blog posts sharing way too much detail about his personal life. In 2016, it was 60%—that’s an increase of 10 percentage points in one year. In 2016, it was 60%—that’s an increase of 10 percentage points in one year.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. I work hard day in and out and take massive action.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

To put this in perspective, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion in 2016 (7.2x It’s about multiples of revenue or earnings, sales growth, profit margins, and management theory. Microsoft’s $7.5 GitHub was acquired for close to 30x annual recurring revenue (an astronomical multiple). So why the difference?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. Many students voted for the first scenario.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S., The idea of protecting U.S.

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