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Leadership Lessons from Nine-Year-Olds

In the CEO Afterlife

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. Diversity is said to be the world’s engine of enlightenment. Their Diverse Ethnicity Unleashed Novel Perspectives.

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

In the CEO Afterlife

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

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Verizon, the iPhone, and the Power of Second Chances

Harvard Business Review

And on the other side of that partnership, NSN also counted on a team of talented, energetic young engineers to hustle to produce LTE for Verizon at record speed. I met leaders of that team in Helsinki a few months before the Verizon event.