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The Value of Vision Series – Daniel Burrus

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. They kept solving those unsolvable problems,” Armstrong added, “until one day, there I was—walking the lunar surface.”. Making the Impossible Possible. And here we are, a little over fifty years later.

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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

Being a new author, you don’t really know what to expect in terms of book sales, marketing efforts, media exposure, translation rights, etc. I feel you started that trend. Paul : I wish I could take credit for this trend, but I can’t. How would you summarize the overall reaction to your Lead with a Story book? Any surprises?

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Make sure you have at least a fifteen- to thirty-second message that is so salient it will be obvious to reporters that it should be featured in the broadcasts. Use catchy words.

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The Right Way to Rally Your Troops

Harvard Business Review

Many have to measure their success in terms of stock price and market share, and when those slip, everyone sees it happening, reads about it in the business pages, watches it on CNBC. Repeatedly Armstrong told his staff that anyone not fully invested in Patch should leave. .” How do the best CEOs confront that challenge?

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How to Harness the Customer Awakening

Harvard Business Review

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. Consider the "My Dell hell" diatribes by prominent blogger and journalist Jeff Jarvis, or Heather Armstrong's "Maytag Nightmare" that she described in vivid detail to her 1.5

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0504 | William Cohen: Full Transcript

LDRLB

It’s a really big trend right now. As he saw it, that money should go into two basic functions of business: marketing and innovation. I’m reading about … I’m very interested in Custer, for various reasons, George Armstrong Custer. The first one I thought was really interesting was around engagement.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. Here's why: Going Cradle-to-Cradle helped put us ahead of the curve on perhaps the biggest environmental trend: recycling. Health and safety is another big trend Cradle-to-Cradle helps us to get ahead of. I'm also an owner. We did that.