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Leadership Lessons From Kent Taylor, Founder Of Texas Roadhouse

Eric Jacobson

From cover-to-cover of Made From Scratch you’ll learn the leadership lessons of the late Kent Taylor , founder of the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse. In the new book, Taylor recounts how he built the restaurant chain from the ground up after being rejected more than 80 times as he pitched the idea for the business.

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0525 | Chris Taylor

LDRLB

Chris Taylor is the founder of actionablebooks.com , a training and development company that spreads actionable insights from business books in the form of summaries and workshops. The post 0525 | Chris Taylor appeared first on LDRLB. In this interview, we discuss the role of culture in leading virtual teams.

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Successful companies are “nice”

Lead on Purpose

In his book Nice Companies Finish First: Why Cutthroat Management is over—and Collaboration Is In , author Peter Shankman shows how famously nice executives, entrepreneurs, and companies are setting the standard for success in this new world. This book has scores of stories that illustrate how nice people and companies finish first.

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A Leader’s Guide To Work In An Age Of Upheaval

Eric Jacobson

Taylor, Jr. Taylor, the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), shares his personal experiences and candid, compassionate and practical thoughts on how to transform the way to select, retain and train employees in today’s, post-COVID and radically changed business environment. Taylor, Jr.

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James Taylor: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. James is passionate about using decisioning technologies like business rules and predictive analytics to help companies improve decision making and develop smarter and more agile processes and systems.

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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy. He describes Texas Roadhouse as “a people company that just happened to sell steaks.”. Throughout the book, his colleagues, friends, and family members weigh in on Taylor’s remarkable journey, and at the end of each chapter, he summarizes lessons he had learned along the way.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Joseph Lalonde

When two boys, Sonny Quinn (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris) discover […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween appeared first on Joseph Lalonde. Stine manuscript wreaks havoc in a small town. This time, the town is Wardenclyffe, New York.

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