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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

He authored 57 books, including a book on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Yet despite our very tight job market, highly effective “magnet companies” attract and hang on to good people. Brand management is an inside job. So, I was sick a lot and stayed home.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership. The kids are acting out”, right?!

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership. The kids are acting out”, right?!

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Fight the Nine Symptoms of Corporate Decline

Harvard Business Review

I found nine universal warning signs of change-in-the-wrong direction in research for my book Confidence , which compared downward spirals with the momentum of success. People become self-absorbed and lose sight of the wider context — customers, constituencies, markets, or the world. The good news is that they are all reversible.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

What do you think causes millions of people to miss work and school in developing economies? While all of those certainly play a role, I'm guessing that what Elizabeth Scharpf stumbled across as a critical factor in absenteeism wasn't on your radar. Scharpf told me she recently ran an ad for SHE's first job opening in New York. "If

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50 Shades of Decay

In the CEO Afterlife

Absentee leadership. Office doors, once open, are closed. Employee development is on the backburner. Marketing blames Sales. ” For more on how to thrive in a complex business world that keeps getting bigger, check out my new book and download a free chapter at www.dolessbetter.ca. Lack of vision. ’ 50.