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Have You Ever Contemplated Your Own Demise?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Nick Liddell : Imagine that three years from now your career will be in tatters. Your carefully manicured career path simply won’t materialize. Whether it’s a career plan or an organizational strategy, we tend to feel far more comfortable developing positive, purpose- or mission-driven strategy.

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Leaders Returning to their First Love

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Either one can represent career advancement and development. Some scientists give up the joys of the lab, some physicians the satisfaction of clinical work with patients, some cooks give up the creativity in the kitchen, for leadership or entrepreneurship. Can you have it all? I recently interviewed restaurant co-owner Rob Evans.

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A Lesson in Leadership from the Melancholic Teddy Roosevelt

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It was this overpowering appreciation that life was wild and precious and fleeting, that undoubtedly propelled TR to become the youngest person to ever be President. In Theodore’s melancholic mind, he was already forecasting a sorrowful end to his political career, just minutes after he was sworn in as Governor.

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How to Get the Most Benefit from an Executive Development Program

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They get tons more out of the program, and their careers don’t fall apart while they are off the grid. However, there’s an important variable that I may have the least control over – but matters as much as anything else – and that’s the participant. So what’s the secret? Why does participant A get a 200% ROI, yet participant B only gets 20%?

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Right Leadership, Right Model

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A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. In my long career, 45 years of it as a CEO, I’ve lived that change. In the old days, lots of employees spent their careers as cogs in a giant machine. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned.

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Learning from History: How to Make Decisions

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She made many decisions during her career as a researcher in the then-new field of radiation. From Marie Curie’s astonishing career, we can learn several important lessons. In observing this process, I’ve noticed that the leaders who most often got things right seemed to be equipped with a kind of toolbox for decision-making.

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