In the CEO Afterlife

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. To do that, Samsung’s leaders must sacrifice the egos of their engineers. Recently, on VentureBeat.com , Olodort chastised his former client for not sticking to the principles of product simplicity and elegance. Sure, there will be a fallout.

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Tips On Honing A Culture Of Winning Through Focus by Martin Zwilling

In the CEO Afterlife

Good examples of startup focus before success include Google with their search engine, Facebook with friends networking, and Apple with personal computers. Since we all have limited resources, and can’t add more hours to the day, the result is usually more things done poorly, rather than a few key things done better than anyone else.

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Leadership Lessons from Nine-Year-Olds

In the CEO Afterlife

Diversity is said to be the world’s engine of enlightenment. The surnames of the class typified several creeds and colors – there was a Buckles, a Clark, a Karim, a Litherland, an Okano, a Suri, a Soltan, a Wang, a Yang and a Zeng. When properly harnessed, diversity can do the same for the country and the world.

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Literary Homicide with TropicalMary

In the CEO Afterlife

Trucks remained frozen in the mud, boiler water solidified and engine oil hardened.” . The rains of fall transformed dusty roads into muddy slop that devoured horses as well as tanks. Winter brought blizzards of thirty below zero. Tony paid little attention to the pretentious blather of head table diners.

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Leamington, Canada: The Little Town That Could

In the CEO Afterlife

Taking a lesson from the signature phrase in the illustrated children’s book, The Little Engine That Could , the Leamington community did not throw in the towel. That’s right, one day. But, one little town was not about to give in to the seemingly inevitable.

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The Green Thing | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline to cut the lawn. When we packaged a fragile item to post, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion and protect it, not styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. We used a push mower powered by a human being.

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A Lesson from Nine-Year Olds | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Diversity is the world’s engine of enlightenment. The students’ content and delivery ran the gamut from serious to hilarious. Their diverse heritage : Surnames of Buckles, Clark, Dryer, Karim, Litherland, Okano, Suri, Soltan, Wang, Yang, Zeng.

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