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Never Enough … Excellence, Agility, and Meaning

Leading Blog

Bush and Barack Obama, Mike Hayes, says Never Enough is about aiming for excellence, agility, and meaning in everything we do. On an individual level, we must never look to be Never Excellent Enough and build our own capabilities in terms of knowledge and capacity, strength and control, and accountability and orientation.

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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members. Because we often run short of time, it is easy to prioritize more immediate issues, but ultimately such choices are bound to backfire.

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Developing Mindful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being? Weiss and her team were careful to keep the language of specific belief systems and religions out of PEP. Developing people is a process — not an event.