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KidPower 2015 Earth Day Project – Coaching Kids to Lead

Lead Change Blog

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. Initiated at a brainstorming session with four of my colleagues, COI began implementing services in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 2007 with a collaborative team of eight community, faith, and professional organizations.

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Boredom: A Route To Creativity

Strategy Driven

Ask yourself these questions, then ask the big one: What would you need to consider to be willing to take the time to hear yourself without barriers and literally brainstorm with yourself? Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Getting to the Top: Strategies for Career Success. Consider leaving a comment!

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Willpower Woes: How a Rotten Resolve Can Hurt You …and 3 ways to develop better self-discipline and control through practice, progression and patience

Strategy Driven

With this in mind, I connected with the author of “ Life Rehab: Don’t Overdose on Pain, People and Power ,” Kanika Tolver—a Certified Professional Coach and thought leader who helps individuals realize career, business, life and spiritual success. Practice: Brainstorm all of your weaknesses—as many as you can think of—and write them down.

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How Lilly Is Getting More Women into Leadership Positions

Harvard Business Review

In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. While this number was comparable to the percentage of women executives at Fortune 500 healthcare companies in 2015, it was not a number we were proud of. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on. We went all-in.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

On March 2, 2015, a line of people stretching around the block waited to get into the Rickshaw Stop on Fell Street in San Francisco. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. The SFO project began in January 2015. Their hope was modest: to attract 100 people.