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The Entrepreneur’s Faces: 10 Entrepreneurial Types and Their Journey

Leading Blog

We need new ways to lead during the crisis – from how to reshape our careers or work, to how to craft a fresh collaborative model in this instantly all-digital age. So he made “a conscious decision to play sports, to be a gangster.”. Sure he read the sports, but he also pored over the business pages. Allan Young’s Awakening.

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Sowing Wild Oats & Getting It Out of Your System - What's Really Happening

Building Personal Strength

My friend was a top student and multi-sport athlete in high school, and he eventually got a football scholarship and later had a successful career as an executive. His drive to achieve in class and in sports kept him on mostly on track during the wild ride of his teen journey. Don't you need to sow some wild oats?

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Make Work Fun Again

Lead Change Blog

During the first week of baseball season in April, young superstar and reigning MVP Bryce Harper sported a ballcap with the following saying: MAKE BASEBALL FUN AGAIN. Harper’s youthful zeal and love for a game that is diminishing in popularity may seem like a trite attitude for playing a sport. Can smiling and fun be a core value?

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. He began his career at the U.S. He started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015.

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Seven Principles To Keep You Present, Grounded, And Thriving

Eric Jacobson

O’Neil is the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, a global sports and entertainment company that includes the Philadelphia 76errs (NBA) and the New Jersey Devils (NHL). I’ve had a rather charmed career, a blessed marriage, was making a confident walk through the world, and then I was stuck. You know what?

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It’s Time for a Paradigm Shift

Lead Change Blog

He uses many examples of sports franchises that always win and some that always lose. 6 years ago, I was sitting in a Wild Wing Cafe talking about employee development with Rob Carman who I was mentoring at the time. How are you progressing careers, shifting paradigms and impacting others? It is time for a paradigm shift!

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Seven Principles To Keep You Present, Grounded And Thriving

Eric Jacobson

O’Neil is the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, a global sports and entertainment company that includes the Philadelphia 76errs (NBA) and the New Jersey Devils (NHL). I’ve had a rather charmed career, a blessed marriage, was making a confident walk through the world, and then I was stuck. You know what?

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