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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

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His goal was not to make Microsoft the most innovative company but the most successful in its field. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough. Innovation requires clear goals to reach toward. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. You know this company.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

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In my younger years, I had many visions of the ideas, goals, and positions that I wanted to achieve. Those who lack vision or don’t know how to identify and act on their vision will struggle with wealth attainment, achievement of goals, and personal fulfillment. Some of them came to fruition.

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The Leaders Our Companies Need: Lessons We Can Learn from Historical Luminaries

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King showcased morally compelling, truth-telling leadership and drew attention throughout the nation and around the world to the persistence of segregation and racism. In this regard, he and his followers were wildly successful. Now, in Warriors, Rebels, and Saints , Temkin refashions the classroom for a wider audience.

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Made From Scratch

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It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. In 1997 he was awarded an Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year.

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The Entrepreneur’s Faces: 10 Entrepreneurial Types and Their Journey

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For many of us, the pandemic has interrupted our goals and stolen our sense of purpose. The authors write: We’re adrift – lacking the stabilizing force of the office, the social grounding of a shared workplace, essential interactions with colleagues. Allan Young’s Awakening. Allan Young’s parents were Chinese immigrants.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

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That won’t protect any CEO from second-guessing, but Immelt explains how he’s pushed through even the most withering criticism: by staying focused on his team and the goals they tried to achieve. Is it wild to give away free peanuts and rolls and keep prices low, even as costs rise, or to keep the menu basically the same since it opened?

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Are Your Goals HARD Enough?

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It’s as Oscar Wilde wrote: "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.''. The problem, says Leadership IQ CEO Mark Murphy, is that we are trying to execute goals we don’t really care about. And only 13 percent thought their goals would help them maximize their full potential.

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