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Ego Free Leadership

Coaching Tip

Resolving those conflicts with a win-win mindset can unlock untold dividends in the form of a shared sense of purpose and commitment according to "EGO FREE LEADERSHIP: Ending the unconscious habits that hijack your business" , by business executive Brandon Black and executive coach Shayne Hughes.

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

Manufacturing is not the most glamorous business, and MBA recruiters are known for tempting people into more “prestigious” careers. Anil is big on commitment. He’s really a committed boss, and he expects the same from his employees. I am fully committed to BABA. Date: May 12, 2013 21:37. Date: June 6, 2013 20:16.

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Twelve Rules for New Grads

Harvard Business Review

Beginning May 12, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. I distilled the discussion down into twelve key pieces of advice — "rules" if you will — for getting off to a good start in one''s career. Keep the commitments you make. So position yourself to be the colleague-of-choice.

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When Did the U.S. Stop Seeing Teachers as Professionals?

Harvard Business Review

Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.” ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Qualified Black Women Are Being Held Back from Management

Harvard Business Review

And, despite their ambition and qualifications, 44% feel stalled in their careers (as compared to 30% of white women). Only 11% of black women in corporate America say they have a sponsor, a powerful advocate invested in their career success. “Now, think about stereotypes of ‘black female.’ ”

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The Big Picture of Business: Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques. Professionals Who Go the Distance.

Strategy Driven

A professional’s career and their collected Body of Work encompass time, energy, resources, perseverance and lots of commitment in order to produce. Commit to sets of standards as to role, job, responsibilities, relationships. Commitment to Career. Core Values: Ethics. by Hank Moore. Aged Cheese.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The ethical conduct of business has a direct relationship on the ability to grow and prosper.). Building corporate cultures and successful businesses means making and sticking to commitments.). Yes and here I stand.”