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From CEO to Novelist: A Case Study of Radical Career Change

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Fortunately I’m traveling tomorrow and will have time to finish it on the plane. I just started reading John Bell’s new novel The Circumstantial Enemy and am having a hard time putting it down. Can’t wait! I know John Bell as a leadership expert. By the age of 47, John had turned a bankrupt company […].

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When you let go of your expectations.

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

A story is told about a young boy who was traveling with his grandmother to a nearby village. The boy, very excited about the adventure, ran back and forth along the path, impatient with his grandmother’s slowness. He snacked on the berries they had brought as he waited for her.

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The Value of Vision Series – Whitney Johnson

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Those packets may travel the same route as all of the other packets in the message, or none of the routes. Ultimately, the route the packet travels is irrelevant, so long as the e-mail gets to the recipient. Consider, for example, the journey of a solitary e-mail message. Whenever you send an e-mail, it is broken up into packets.

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Alfred’s Wake Up Call or How to Create the Life You Want to Be Remembered For

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Although he owned a home in Paris, he was constantly traveling, unmarried, and according to Victor Hugo was “Europe’s richest vagabond.” By the time he was 55 in 1888, Alfred had been issued over 350 patents internationally, owned 90 armaments factories in over 20 countries and had amassed a great fortune.

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Be the Boss You’d Like to Have

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In my travels I have the good fortune to talk with people from around the world. The only thing I ask is when you make a big mistake, let me know early on so I can run interference and so we can learn from it.’ I have a lot of latitude to do my job the way I see fit.”. Lucky for him, I thought. That’s a great boss.

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The Value of Vision Series – Kouzes and Posner

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Focusing on the Future Sets Leaders Apart. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. We’ve all had a glimpse of the future.

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What I Wish I Knew as a CEO That I Learned Later in HR

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When not traveling, Les and his wife reside in the French Bordeaux countryside. Now semi-retired, Les sits on several corporate boards (US, UK and Switzerland), is an advisor to governments and corporations, coaches senior executives, and is a sought after keynote speaker.

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