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Leadership and Straight Talk

You're Not the Boss of Me

For example, her counsel to one caller who was obviously playing the martyrdom card went something like this: “ Get down off the cross honey, somebody needs the wood! Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. It made me smile. It grows integrity.

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Is There a CEO Afterlife? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Fortunately I don’t take myself as seriously as I did in my business days; I no longer fret about my insecurities or fear the political animals lurking in the hallowed hallways of the Zurich head office. Warren Staley (Cargill) supports Habitat for Humanity with a hammer, a saw and a wallet. His face glowed.

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Straight Talk

You're Not the Boss of Me

For example, her counsel to one caller who was obviously playing the martyrdom card went something like this: “ Get down off the cross honey, somebody needs the wood! Taking the hammer out of the communication toolbox allows for more open and meaningful conversation. It made me smile. It grows integrity.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. We take a look at ourselves and see so many areas for improvement that we are tempted to attack them all at once. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action. Where the fins hit the water is when we take action toward their fulfillment.

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Green Police

Chris Brady

In a good stab at such misguided beliefs, Audi basically tried to sell an awesome car to people fed up with getting in trouble with the viciously politically correct. Government is like a sledge hammer. "green Police" Two examples, florescent light bulb,and GMO crops.

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Leadership Is Not a Solitary Task

Harvard Business Review

They were also an example of the power of community in leadership. And certainly, history is filled with examples of men and women like Trocmé, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Theresa who took bold individual action. And whether in politics or business, leadership for community is almost always the most powerful.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. It can even be quantified. As the U.S.