In the CEO Afterlife

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Minimalism: Doing More, with Less

In the CEO Afterlife

Less stuff, less clutter, less stress, and debt, and discontent. Yet, these nearly infinite options force us to make more decisions, thus causing more stress. After hearing about minimalism, Millburn and Nicodemus dropped everything and adopted the principles of minimalism. Imagine a life with less. Now, imagine a life with more.

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Book Review by Judith Barrow

In the CEO Afterlife

Set between 1941-1952 , It’s a cross-genre story of history, politics, war and romance: a story that exposes the devastation and horror of war, the reactions of human beings to the stress and trauma of enforced separation from family and friends, of enduring love against all the odds.

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Who Makes Resolutions Come True? YOU

In the CEO Afterlife

These are the ‘softer’ factors that include empathy, stress, contentment, how you lead, how you inspire, and how you impact others. Now go into the switch & shift mode; think about YOU. Forget quantitative and consider the qualitative side of your business life. Define the constraints.

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Beer Branding: Image is Still Everything

In the CEO Afterlife

Last year, Carlsberg’s Belgian agency Duval Guillaume Modem introduced the concept of putting regular people through stressful predicaments and then disclosing the sting. They began with a cinema full of bikers. The video below went viral and had 11 million views within 8 months of launch.

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What’s Holding YOU Back?

In the CEO Afterlife

These are the ‘softer’ factors that include empathy, stress, contentment, how you lead, how you inspire, and how you impact others. Now go into the switch & shift mode; think about YOU. Forget quantitative and consider the qualitative side of your business life. Define the constraints.

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The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World

In the CEO Afterlife

These are the sacrifices that rob you of sleep, sober your disposition, heighten your stress, and choke your patience on the little things in life. Tough sacrifices claw at your emotions because they require that you do something that you don’t want to do.

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Strategy for Non-Strategic Leaders

In the CEO Afterlife

When I was on the ‘hot seat’ and in the line of fire as a CEO, I constantly dealt with pressing day-to-day issues such as bringing in the quarter, forecasting erratic commodity markets, reacting to predatory pricing, and stressing over sales shortfalls and excess inventory.

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