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Advice to Taylor Swift on Sustaining Success

Michael Lee Stallard

Taylor Swift has successfully managed living in the frying pan of fame for nearly a decade now. That is a difficult thing to do, especially for singers who come on the scene in their teenage years (ahem, Britney, Miley and Justin). Taylor, I appreciate your humility and focus on others. You should do that too.

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5 Relationship Books For Leaders To Read In February 2023

Joseph Lalonde

Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions by Ford Taylor: That’s not a misspelling for the title of the book. Ford Taylor understands that business is not all relational. Taylor will help you bridge the gap between transactional people and relational people. Business is both. Because it was.

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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Strategic Blueprint for Professional Success.

Rich Gee Group

Go Deep - WHY do you feel like an imposter? I tell clients to act like Daniel Craig or Taylor Swift — act confident in uncertain situations and deftly place yourself into their persona — it works. This approach can transform potential negativity into a constructive learning opportunity. Was it your upbringing?

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders. It's time to fight back.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Plane

Joseph Lalonde

What do you do? Do you wait and wait and wait? Or do you take action? Make sure you’re not waiting around when you should be doing what needs to be done. They would do this to the best of their ability so that no one would be hurt. We can get trapped in the idea that we must do things perfectly.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside. The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. It leads to short-term thinking. That’s not the way to lead.

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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

T HE KIND OF SUCCESS Texas Roadhouse has enjoyed didn’t happen by doing things the conventional way. But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy. Some of the lessons Taylor shares are: There’s a perception that we can’t do much about our weaknesses in life, so we should only focus on our strengths.

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