Coaching Tip

APRIL 12, 2011

Jeremie Kubicek, author of " Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It ," sees leadership as a vehicle to influence people and have a positive impact on them. "The runaway greed of Wall Street's leadership, skyrocketing salaries for corporate executives and unkept promises from political leaders have left most people feeling betrayed and jilted.

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Influence Leadership Advertising Learning-by-Doing 108

Coaching Tip

APRIL 10, 2011

By Scott Adams, the creator of " Dilbert ," abstracted from How to Get a Real Education in The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2011. If you're having a hard time imagining what an education in entrepreneurship should include, allow me to prime the pump with some lessons I've learned along the way. Combine Skills. The first thing you should learn in a course on entrepreneurship is how to make yourself valuable.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 15, 2011

If you can generate an awareness of what an ideal state of affairs might be, even if it seems unattainable at present, constraints that have loomed as absolute can be seen differently; as potentially surmountable obstacles to the attainment of the ideal solution. Then you can concentrate on ways of removing those obstacles. To illustrate, let's say that you are in the lumber industry and the key success factors are: owning large forests and maximizing the yield from them.

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