In the CEO Afterlife

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Stop Managing Your Career

In the CEO Afterlife

A coach or mentor’s advice may serve to overcome personal weaknesses; it may have to do with leadership, how to deal with an impossible boss or a toxic corporate culture. Honorable career management must be anchored in the right values.

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Getting Out of Life What You Put into It

In the CEO Afterlife

Then another 40k went into the fireplace before literary agent Eric Nelson agreed to offer advice. My next mistake was penning a manuscript of 225k words. When everyone and their brother said it was too long, I cut it back to 180k. Though he loved the story, Eric said I needed better structure and focus.

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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The advice proved excellent, and for the rest of my days in the corner office I was joined at the hip with an outstanding finance executive who is now the CFO of Lindt & Sprüngli , the world’s leading chocolatier. Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip.

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

In the CEO Afterlife

My motive is nothing more than to share my experience with today’s business community in the hope they might put an old warrior’s advice to good use. Like most bloggers, I write about what I know; that’s strategy, leadership and branding.

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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

He had to take some of his own business advice, to do less better: the third editor he paid to read his novel asked him, “Would this book suffer if you started at Chapter 12?”. One wonders whether spending years on this long, character-driven novel didn’t teach him how to be a better writer in a way that made the non-fiction book so good.”.

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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

He had to take some of his own business advice, to do less better: the third editor he paid to read his novel asked him, “Would this book suffer if you started at Chapter 12?”. One wonders whether spending years on this long, character-driven novel didn’t teach him how to be a better writer in a way that made the non-fiction book so good.”.

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A Boomer's Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day | In the.

In the CEO Afterlife

A Boomer’s Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day. One Response to A Boomer’s Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. by John • June 19, 2011 • Life , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. This week I turn 65. I can’t believe it. But please. About John.

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