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Foxes And Hedgehogs: Which One Are You?

Lead Change Blog

In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. My initial reaction was to be “foxy” in pursuit of opportunities, only to feel frustrated and unfulfilled, like in my first leadership position.

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

Tool #5 - Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy This week, let’s understand how companies position themselves in the marketplace to succeed - The Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy. With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product.

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Civility: The New Employee Attraction and Retention Strategy

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Leadership Development Light Your World Value Creation Workplace Issues Workplace attractiveness is an optimistic attitude or a positive emotion an individual has towards an organization (Aiman-Smith et al.

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Elmore Leonard: Focus On What’s Important, Ignore Everything Else

N2Growth Blog

10 that Elmore Leonard , a gifted storyteller and author of some 46 novels, posited in an essay on writing for the New York Times in 2001. Try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. That is Rule No. Leonard died this month and since his passing has brought forth boatloads of praise for this gifted storyteller.

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Are Second-Generation Immigrants More Left Leaning?

The Horizons Tracker

“Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a left-right scale based on the ideological and policy positions of the party receiving the vote.”

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Privately Educated People Much More Likely To Vote Conservative

The Horizons Tracker

This nationally-representative sample provided insight into subjects’ family background, education, political attitudes at age 42, voting habits during the general elections of 1997, 2001, 2005, and 2010, as well as their attitude towards trade unions at age 16. Within this sample, a mere 3.0% (3.3%

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Rekindling the Inner Flame in Others, and in Ourselves

Michael Lee Stallard

Doug Conant’s Story: Being Honored and Honoring Others Doug Conant is the leader who turned around Campbell Soup Company when he served as President and CEO (2001-2011). The positive emotions Conant experienced from connecting with MacKenna made him more aware of how fully connecting with others affects them in positive ways.