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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

The importance of research, due-diligence and marketplace understanding surface. By studying swings of the pendulum (likelihoods of failures), one better understands their progress. Experience Gathering – Circumstances within and outside your control caused the projects to fail. Grooming – The team let you down.

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What Made a Great Leader in 1776

Harvard Business Review

” Which helps to explain why Ellis’s book is a such a terrific case study in leadership. Second, leadership is tested most by a dilemma — a situation that requires a choice between two or more equally unfavorable options. Do your due diligence. Hire for common purpose, yes.

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What Made a Great Leader in 1776

Harvard Business Review

” Which helps to explain why Ellis’s book is a such a terrific case study in leadership. Second, leadership is tested most by a dilemma — a situation that requires a choice between two or more equally unfavorable options. Do your due diligence. Hire for common purpose, yes.

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How to Tell If a Company’s Culture Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

During the interview process, you had a singular goal: to get an offer. John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. Ignore red flags.

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How to Work for a Gossipy Boss

Harvard Business Review

It can be disheartening and demoralizing when your boss tells you things he shouldn’t, says Annie McKee, founder of the Teleos Leadership Institute and a coauthor, with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis, of Primal Leadership. ’” Your goal, says Rothbard, is to “change the subject.”

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Be a Better Global Collaborator

Harvard Business Review

Global leadership is much more complicated than leading people like you," says Mansour Javidan, the Director of the Global Mindset Institute at Thunderbird School of Global Management and author of " Making It Overseas." Fortunately, more people are doing their due diligence these days. Case Study #1: Knowing when to adapt.

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How to Know If Joining a Startup Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

Focus on the specific opportunity, and do the necessary research, due diligence, and soul-searching to figure out whether that particular job is right for you. You also need to get to know the leadership, adds Gulati. ” Your goal is to determine “where this company is on the growth curve,” he says.