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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

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But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. That position humbled me and taught me lessons about leadership that I still use today, some 20 years later.

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Leadership Development and Educating our Young :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Did you wake up eager and ready for the learning and relationship challenges that were there each day?

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

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Although the recession ended in 2009, here we are five years later and unemployment for Generation Y (1982-1995) remains near its cyclical peak across the world. The largest, best-educated generation in history has become an under-utilized resource, vastly unprepared to move into positions of responsibility and leadership.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration.

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Revisiting Our Masculine Side of Leadership :: Women on Business

Women on Business

He ” by Robert Johnson is about the myth of Perceval and the Holy Grail. Now, it is, in essence, a mystery story and a precursor of the Indiana Jones films.

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A Guilty Conscience = A Great Hire??? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

According to research done by Francis Flynn, Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford University (as reported in The January/February 2011 edition of Harvard Business Review), guilt-prone individuals unequivocally make great employees. Believe it?

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Leadership Development and Educating our Young Think back to when you began your school years. Women Leaders and Male Partnership In any learning process, there is a tendency to go.