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Hachi - A Great Dog Movie

Building Personal Strength

I loved her in Georgia OKeeffe (2009), The Upside of Anger (2005), and the Bourne thrillers. From Hachi we learn something about loyalty. Posted by Denny Coates at 1:28 AM Labels: Dogs , Loyalty , Movies 2comments: Audrey Rose said. And it starred Richard Gere, Joan Allen, and Jason Alexander. So I put it at the top of my queue.

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

By 2005, the Chief Lightning Catcher found a company that wanted to acquire the firm and provide badly needed investment capital. But in December 2005, the offer fell through. Many CEOs of midsized firms are loyal to the team that got them there, but that loyalty is misplaced if it erodes the company’s ability to grow.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Recognizing the growing consumer interest in sustainable products and looking to solve consumer challenges such as high energy costs, CPG companies have developed new products to gain access to this market.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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Research: How You Feel About Individualism Is Influenced by Your Social Class

Harvard Business Review

As Della Mae Justice, a successful lawyer who was raised in poverty, explained to the New York Times in 2005 , “My stomach’s always in knots getting ready to go to a party, wondering if I’m wearing the right thing, if I’ll know what to do.” The reality, however, is often quite different.

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Can Charisma Be Taught? The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough

Terry Starbucker

The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room. That aura, that confidence, that vibe.

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Leadership – What's Love Got To Do With it?

Terry Starbucker

I recently wrote my first business book titled “Loyalty is Love: How to Hold Clients Close for Life.&# And the example of a man who had developed what I call Inner Leadership… because without knowing love from the inside-out it’s impossible to authentically show such love and model it for other people.