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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. A preferred provider has a significant competitive advantage over all other providers, because it is the “go-to” provider in the marketplace. ” -Stan Silverman.

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The Advisor’s Corner – Can Ethics Be Learned?

Strategy Driven

Question : Can you teach ethics, or are we ‘hard wired’ and born with or without ethics? YES you can teach the principles and importance of ethics. YES , you can model the ethics you expect within your culture. Therefore, what’s ethical in China is not ethical in Rome and vice versa.

Ethics 57
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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. In that regard, he taught me a “work ethic.”

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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. In that regard, he taught me a “work ethic.”

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Flashback To Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. In that regard, he taught me a “work ethic.”

Books 50
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Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobson

Equally impressive, Van Gorder had to reinvent his career after having been injured on the job as a California police officer. Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. In that regard, he taught me a “work ethic.”

Books 84
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The Big Picture of Business – Mentoring Guides Your Success

Strategy Driven

The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. ’ Approach your career as a body of work. It’s a career, not just a series of jobs. Life and careers include peaks and valleys.

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