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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

It’s an honor when clients or friends refer me for a speaking engagement. So, following a successful program, during a break in the agenda, after leaving the stage and talking with many with conference attendees, I often find myself standing beside the organizer.

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Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust

Skip Prichard

It requires that we put ourselves in another person’s shoes, understand their frame of reference, take thoughtful actions to navigate potentially harmful situations, and build real trust and long-term relationships in life and business. When the day of the meeting arrived, the team waited nervously in a conference room.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

This helps both in terms of coming up with novel ideas for new businesses and also attracting the finance to help them to grow. For a nation that often likes to refer to itself as E-stonia, it’s perhaps not surprising that there are also a number of initiatives designed to enhance the digital skills of the country’s citizens.

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Don't Just Tell Them - Tell Them A Story

Chris Brady

Unfortunately, much of that wealth was inaccessible to me because I could never seem to catch much of what these men so casually reported. I was eager to learn all I could from such a wealth of experience all around me. As a case in point there was a discussion one day in a meeting in which I asked a question of one of them.

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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way

Harvard Business Review

He succeeded in charming Wall Street … without ever deigning to participate in one of his company’s quarterly earnings conference calls or talking up its prospects on CNBC. Communication Finance Getting buy-in' Obviously, if IBM hadn’t met the targets Palmisano and Loughridge set, it would have been a different story.

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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

She claimed the Wall Street Journal story was "blown out of proportion," which led Dimon to refer publicly to the trades as a "complete tempest in a teapot.". As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports.

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Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Brad: Drink after the conference? They were at a conference, with industry contacts all around, using their corporate expense accounts. He led the finance team. She reported to the head of sales, who reported to the COO, and she and Brad rarely interacted at work. FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. Brad: Just me.