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What Business Women Can Learn from George Steinbrenner

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George is accused by competitive teams and fans of changing baseball by using his financial power to buy and keep great players. This strategy continued a Yankee tradition started in the 1920s, long before George bought the team. Be willing to pay good people what they are worth and more to recruit them and keep them on your team.

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Learning Leadership from the New York Yankees

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s my assessment on why I believe the NY Yankee team, management, and yes, even, the ownership, show the following leadership abilities: 1. The Yankees give their young players every opportunity to develop, sending them back to the farm team, working with the coaches and then finally giving them the chance to contribute, ie Phil Hughes.

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The Magic of Steve Jobs

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He also has recruited a team of top notch engineers, designers and marketers who can bring his genius to life. He settles for nothing less than the best, including making his products, marketing, packaging etc. aesthetically beautiful with cutting edge design and international appeal.

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It Hurts To Lose

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Especially, when your team is often losing, rather than winning. We get to celebrate the wins and feel depressed when the team loses. I think we identify vicariously with our team(s). Why do so many people, especially men, thrive on spectator sports? Well, let's face it, the win/lose ratio is probably 50-50.

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The Magic of Steve Jobs Part 2

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He also has recruited a team of top notch engineers, designers and marketers who can bring his genius to life. He settles for nothing less than the best, including making his products, marketing, packaging etc. aesthetically beautiful with cutting edge design and international appeal.

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What is Your New Business Model for 2010?

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and remind yourself and your team about all the great information you learned or didn?t Once a live event is over, it?s s over and if you missed hearing something, it?s s gone forever. But at the WLE Virtual Summit, you can replay the speeches, etc. t get to hear the first time.

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Taking on the Sports Establishment

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s the team had one of the lowest graduation rates in the country. s more complicated than that. It seems that during Huggins? 16 years at Cincinnati, the Bearcats had a history of player arrests and violations. In addition, during the 90?s Add on to that the fact that Huggins was convicted of drunken driving last year.

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