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The Making of Legends

Strategy Driven

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. I served on boards of directors, search committees, awards panels, review boards and task forces for many.

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The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track

Harvard Business Review

Organizations are moving faster and faster these days and few managers have time to think through their meetings in advance,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. Pozen suggests you ask participants, “What do we see as the next steps? to show what outcome you have in mind.

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Why Today’s Teens Are More Entrepreneurial than Their Parents

Harvard Business Review

This means excelling academically as well as participating in evening and weekend extracurriculars. Not only does this leave little time for the kind of work their parents did after school, those part-time jobs to most admissions committees simply aren’t impressive enough.