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Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

Joseph Lalonde

They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. More recently, Stephen Covey said, “I am not a product of my circumstances. Having strong values protects you from measuring and rewarding the wrong behaviors and objectives. At WD-40 Company, we include values as part of our talent management system.

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Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 | RoundtableTalk

Roundtable Talk

It’s the thing that happens to get the product to market” Mitch Joel @mitchjoel / Author and marketing guru / In a nutshell: It’s time for Leadership 3.0… Before building community you need to build engagement.” “If your product or service sucks; social media, marketing or management won’t save you.”