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Paradise By The Green Dashboard Light – A Leadership Short Story

Terry Starbucker

I’m the SVP of Operations of a Cable TV Company that operates in 4 states and has 22 operating divisions. We had acquired the properties in 2003, and had spent the first 5 years setting the stage for a drive to sustained growth and profitability. Better still, we had a secret weapon that was guiding us along.

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Why Are You Always Late?

Coaching Tip

Include travel and transition time. A 2003 study, Dr. Conte co-wrote in the journal Human Performance examined 181 subway operators in New York City. Accept that you can’t be in two places at the same time. If you have a morning meeting, have clothes ready the night before and use an alarm without a snooze function.

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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

Many jurisdictions around the world are declaring states of emergency, closing their borders, and restricting travel. In 2003, it took over a year to achieve half this information with SARS. Many companies have moved very quickly to work from home, closures, reduced hours, and other forms of reducing people-to-people transmission.

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How I Discovered The Values That Led Me To Leadership Success

Terry Starbucker

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. We had acquired the properties in 2003 from a large company that had largely ignored and neglected them for a number of years. I naturally love interaction, and was just there to talk.

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John Wooden: What the Obituaries Missed

Michael Lee Stallard

In the summer of 2003, the ninety-two year-old Wooden traveled to the White House, where he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. All of his players were to be respectful toward flight attendants, waitresses and waiters, and hotel workers they encountered while traveling with the team.

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Rising Above the Stage Show

Chris Brady

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

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What the Mission to Mars Shows About India’s Innovators

Harvard Business Review

Reflecting on the achievement, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked : “India had travelled through space to Mars at a cost of 7 cents per kilometer, much cheaper than travelling a kilometer in Ahmedabad,” Gujarat’s biggest city from which Narendra Modi hails. ISRO’s success is best characterized as frugal engineering.