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You Don’t Have to Choose Between Your Career and Your Relationship

Women on Business

Guest post by Susie Collins (learn more about Susie at the end of this post). There are a growing number of career opportunities for women these days. It is exciting to grow a career in a field that you are passionate about. Periodically, she might even be hyper-attentive to her career and less so to her partner.

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Leaders don’t create more followers. They create more leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

Micromanaging, blaming and holding people back, will only lead to a culture of distrust with high turnover, low morale and reduced creativity. Over the course of may career, I only had one manager who was a leader. The corporate world is littered with managers but lack leaders. He made such an impact and influenced my leadership style.

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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

Do Leadership Books Really Help Advance Your Life and Career? Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance James A.

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George E. L. Barbee: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Barbee is one of the original Batten Fellow faculty members (along with Jim Collins, Malcolm Gladwell and Jim Gilmore) at top-ranked University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and has been teaching innovation for the past 15 years to over 500 MBA students and senior executives. Barbee: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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George E.L. Barbee: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Barbee is one of the original Batten Fellow faculty members (along with Jim Collins, Malcolm Gladwell and Jim Gilmore) at top-ranked University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and has been teaching innovation for the past 15 years to over 500 MBA students and senior executives. Barbee: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris.

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Why Your Good Leadership Isn't Great.

Rich Gee Group

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Good To Great. Unported License.

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Embrace Wild Thinking to Grow Your Business

Skip Prichard

25 Provocative Questions to 25 Creative Leaders. Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings. A Successful Career is a Marathon. Lidell, Buchanan. What is wild thinking? Lidell, Buchanan.

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