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Guest Post: The “General” Manager – Soldier Lessons for the.

Lead on Purpose

Bill Gates is the master of staying ahead of the pack in the business world. Filed under: Leadership Tagged: | competition , goals , John Durfee , success « Three practices of successful product managers Leadership and Product Management » Like Be the first to like this post.

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What a Week for Departures: HP's Hurd, Jet Blue's Slater and.

Next Level Blog

As a leader, you are always on stage. How about that issue of stage presence? A multi-million dollar CEO was forced to resign; a flight attendant chose not to wait for the jetway to depart and an office worker named “Jenny” shared her white board based resignation letter with millions when it went viral online. 

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Freedom Only to the Degree of Self Mastery

Chris Brady

» February 24, 2010 Freedom Only to the Degree of Self Mastery Are you ready for something insightful and remarkably profound?  Posted by: Phyllis Hoff | February 24, 2010 at 07:58 AM I think i will cut and paste and then print that for the work desk. That statement is an eye opener,and definitely something to ponder.

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From idea to strategy

Lead on Purpose

Filed under: Leadership , Knowledge , Market-driven , Innovation , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | strategy , customer focus , products , services , Carol Bartz , Yahoo! In Bartz’s case, there is a queue of TPSE to work through before they stage gate the emerging ideas against strategy alignment.

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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. All eyes will find them.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). Yes, Steve Jobs actually unveiled a leather iPod pouch on stage. No advertising innovation: The "I'm a Mac/"I'm a PC" campaign ran for three and a half years without a refresh. No iPad mini at all.

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How Can We Scale Educational Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. presidential administrations.