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Byron Wien’s 20 Lessons Learned

Michael Lee Stallard

While working at Morgan Stanley in New York City, I met and discovered the writings of several thoughtful market analysts. Do the numbers crunching in the early phase of your career. It motivates and inspires people and encourages them to perform at a higher level. Short-cuts can be construed as sloppiness, a career killer.

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

In the CEO Afterlife

My motive is nothing more than to share my experience with today’s business community in the hope they might put an old warrior’s advice to good use. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career. Mine was marketing.

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

LDRLB

My motive is nothing more than to share my experience with today’s business community in the hope they might put an old warrior’s advice to good use. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career. Mine was marketing.

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

LDRLB

My motive is nothing more than to share my experience with today’s business community in the hope they might put an old warrior’s advice to good use. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career. Mine was marketing.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. ” To test our idea that board service would help advance the careers of executives, we created a sample of roughly 2,140 top executives in S&P 1500 firms from 1996-2012.

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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom. Workers motivated by financial incentives alone struggle to perform at the level of the true believer.

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To Close a Deal, Find a Champion

Harvard Business Review

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation. That’s where the fourth element comes in: motivation.