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Texas Roadhouse and a Leader’s Legacy

Mark Sanborn

The top ten attend the company conference, and the winner brings home a new truck. . For instance, in 2004 a group of employees travelled to Mexico, where they rebuilt an orphanage and a community center. Taylor often talks about how important it is to be available and not to be a leader you only meet once a year at a conference.

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The Crisis In Ukraine Shows Why Strategy Is No Longer A Game Of Chess

Harvard Business Review

When confronted, he remained defiant, exercising every lever of authority he possessed, including his control over the media, political structures and finally, the use of force. They donned makeshift shields and helmets, burnt tires to obstruct snipers, and communicated via social media. His rivals were almost comically ill-equipped.

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Have LinkedIn and Medium Killed the Old-Fashioned Blog?

Harvard Business Review

When I started blogging in 2004, I had just finished graduate school and I was trying to figure out what I was going to be when I grew up. Before I knew it, I had started what we’d now call a social media agency. I didn’t start my business: my blog did. had prepared me for. Is that still the right advice in 2015?

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Can Your Company Survive a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

mortgage borrowers got into this situation from about 2004 through early 2007. And that's not all: Those who've done the borrowing don't have enough income to make the interest payments on their loans; asset prices have to keep rising to keep everything from falling apart. A lot of U.S. As you may have heard, it ended badly.

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The New Rules of Presentations

Harvard Business Review

What a load of old twaddle … As modern-day presenters, we’re equipped with tools to help us deliver our message in a whole heap of ways, from a cozy chat over a coffee to orating to masses at a conference. It’s time for presenters (and authors!) About the Author.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

2 (2004): 349–399. Attend a conference you have never before attended. Learn more about how she uses social media. Burt, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition (Cam­bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Ronald S. 3 (2000): 425–455. Meet at least three new people.

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3 Reasons to Kill Influencer Marketing

Harvard Business Review

We’ve seen powerful social epidemics erupt in the Arab Spring , the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine and the 2004 Orange Revolution that preceded it. Now, it hardly makes sense that Hosni Mubarak and Viktor Yanukovych, who controlled the media and the major organs of power, lacked influence or access to influential people.