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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

All In : How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary by Robert Bruce Shaw. All In shows why obsession, if properly focused and managed, is both necessary and productive. Shaw also provides insight into the dark side of obsession and its destructive potential. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Alien: Covenant

Joseph Lalonde

Whether their role is to take care of customers, sell a product, create a product, or another business function, every team member adds to the beauty of your organization. In the end, he wound up taking the life of Elizabeth Shaw, the woman he claims to love. Alien: Covenant was worth the price of admission.

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Caption Contest 2011.1 and a Winner Announced!

Chris Brady

Posted by: Geneva | January 05, 2011 at 12:51 PM Snuggie's new product line - The Lappie! Posted by: Tim Sutherland | January 06, 2011 at 12:27 AM Momma said there would be days like this Posted by: Jaime Shaw | January 06, 2011 at 07:10 AM Does your budding author need blinders? Brought to you by YarnTechnologies! Easy to wear.

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Would You Rather be Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

Harvard Business Review

And within another 15, the nascent automobile industry found itself rocked by yet another innovation: Henry Ford's system of mass production, which obliterated hundreds of competitors who could not produce cars as quickly or cheaply. Many incremental improvements become far better products and businesses. innovators. entrepreneurs.

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Climate Change Is an Overwhelming Problem. Here Are 4 Things Executives Can Do Today

Harvard Business Review

“Even a vortex is a vortex in something,” noted George Bernard Shaw. Swallow hard — and raise the price of carbon. This was the conclusion of the Commission on Carbon Prices, a group of leading economists supported by the World Bank. Plunge into the data. ” So in what medium is the carbon vortex forming?