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089: The Power of Brevity | with Bill Holston

Engaging Leader

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was only 2 or 3 minutes long, and we remember it much better than the other speaker that day, Edward Everett, who spoke for two hours. Kennedy’s famous inaugural address - Ask not what your country can do for you” was only 15 minutes long, one of the shortest up to that point n history.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

There are plenty of well-known examples throughout the course of history; Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great, Laurence Olivier mentored Anthony Hopkins and Freddy Laker mentored Richard Branson. To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Plus, if you missed last month’s instalment with Sunday Times economics editor David Smith , it was a cracker! Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services.

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Consultants: Resistance Is Futile

N2Growth Blog

Susan has a history with ACME and it’s not all good. Scott expected nothing short of full cooperation from Susan and her team. He would see her at kickoff later that day. Part 2: Resis tance Does Not Have To Be Futile. However, there is a proactive element that Susan missed. Susan instantly gets the chills.

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5 Ways To Kill Email. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

Harkening back to those old times, we only received/wrote 2-3 (no more than five) memos a day. Here are some tips that I use to make my way through 125-150 emails a day: Recognize that email is not your master, it’s a piece of software. Your fear of missing that important email will slowly go away. Then one month.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

If you’re not hoisting, pulling, lifting, or pressing, you’re missing out. Excerpt from The Most Valuable Missing Ingredient in Your Fitness Routine. I have a history of going a little overboard with the “healthy physical habits” – for example, weekly fasting or excessive training for athletic competitions, etc.

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Are your sales historical or hysterical?

Strategy Driven

In college (Temple University in 1964), my modern European history professor said, “It’s not the date of what happened that matters. It’s what happened in response to the date (events, outcomes) that creates history.” Meet one customer a day for morning coffee. Work in accounting for a day.

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