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Steve Jobs: The Dynamics of An Excellent Team

Leading Blog

It’s groupthink. What follows is a lightly edited portion of Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview , released in 2012, explaining what is required from a team to achieve excellence. But that only produces stasis or marginal improvement at best.

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Quiet: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her book, Susan Cain takes a balanced approach to the immensely difficult task of examining the [.].

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Urban Meyer, Ohio State Football, and How Leaders Ignore Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business Review

That’s the percentage of games the team has won under Meyer as head coach since he joined Ohio State in 2012. For example, there is no mention that there were nine police reports involving domestic disputes between Zach and his now ex-wife, Courtney Smith, between 2012-2018. Performance over principles.

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Why You Need Both Knowledge and Wisdom

Strategy Driven

New technologies and new leadership styles are needed to succeed and win. Groupthink is a real thing. Dan Cooper co-founded ej4, a video-based online training company, in 2003, and was its CEO until selling in 2012. When we studied wisdom for our new book, we found many interesting qualities that it has versus knowledge.

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