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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

This weekend I had the honor of attending his graduation from EOD school where he was recognized as the Honor Graduate in his class (see above picture). link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Hi Gordon: Thanks for your well wishes Gordon. As many of you know, my son is an active duty officer in the US Air Force. Thanks Mark.

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To Change Your Strategy, First Change How You Think

Harvard Business Review

Southwest’s innovation was to focus on low fares with one-class cabins, homogenous fleets, and point-to-point routes. From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. All of these efforts failed.

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Why You Should Tell Your Team to Take a Break and Go Outside

Harvard Business Review

To this end, workplaces are adding health-related perks from exercise rooms to yoga classes. Leaders participate in mindfulness and compassion trainings and are coached to learn emotional intelligence. After all, research shows that a happier workplace is more productive.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Having taught at five business schools over several decades and served as Dean of two, I have come to a conclusion: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be recalibrated and transformed dramatically. STEM-driven. We need to merge business experience and academia far more than now.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The three new Wall Street programs follow a similar formula to Returnship in terms of timing and small class size. And last week J.P. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P.

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Are You Spending 1,000 Hours Preparing for Your Next Job?

Harvard Business Review

That's taking Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's bold prediction (now known as Moore's Law ) that the number of transistors on a chip will double approximately every two years to a far new level. Even with these rough calculations, you can get an idea of how much training you should be receiving on your current job — just to stay current.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Having taught at five business schools and served as Dean of two, I have come to hold one opinion very strongly: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be transformed, and transformed dramatically. We need to merge business experience and academia far more than now.