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A Page From my Personal Journal – April 16, 2003

Leadership Freak

April 16, 2003 Yesterday Dale went shopping for clothes without me. (We We usually shop together.) She came back with two summer dresses that look very comfortable. One was pleasing to my eye. The… Continue reading →

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Business Leaders: It’s Time to Start Thinking About Our Talent in New Ways

Leading Blog

In 2003, he organized a West Michigan-based pioneering group of CEOs and community leaders to create The SOURCE, a nonprofit that has helped hundreds of workers navigate challenges interfering with their jobs and delivered an average annual return on investment of 200 percent to its partner organizations.

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The Most Precious Resource of Leadership

Terry Starbucker

In 2003, I walked into a situation where a previous owner hadn’t kept their word – repeatedly. And the really tricky thing about it is, the size and extent of the word that’s not kept really doesn’t matter much - they all can create that gale force wind that knocks down the house. Didn’t happen.

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No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy.

Leading Blog

A FTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS on September 11, 2001 and on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Major General James Mattis needed to connect with every member of the 1st Marine Division. His letter to the Blue Diamond : MARCH 2003. 1st Marine Division (REIN) Commanding General's Message to All Hands.

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Most Verizon lease agreements are twenty to thirty years in length.

General Leadership

Throughout much of the long and arduous effort to revise Article 2 of the UCC that eventuated in the 2003 text it was proposed to delete the writing requirement in Section 2-201. That would have brought it into line with American law for international sale of goods as found in the CISG. … Read the rest.

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The Number One Reason Employees Get Sick.Perceived Unfairness at Work

Great Leadership By Dan

.” - Anonymous Recent studies confirm that emotional hurt and rejection, whether part of social interactions or the perception of inequitable and unjust workplace conditions can actually trigger the same neurophysiologic pathways associated with physical pain and suffering (Eisenberger, Lieberman, & Williams, 2003). Lieberman, M.

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Leadership Profile: Carolyn Jessop

Nathan Magnuson

On April 21, 2003, Carolyn Jessop finally followed through on a plot more daring than any you or I have likely faced. Under the cover of darkness in the middle of the night she herded her 8 children past several “sister wives” and into a van where they narrowly escaped the quasi-totalitarianism of the Fundamentalist […].