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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource. A client in need of innovation? Here are the benefits I garnered from a decade of prolific reading: 1. Perennial Wisdom. Yep, I can help with that,” I’d say.

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Success and Discomfort

CEO Blog

I was prepared for an advertorial. It is a privilege to be able to work out. + And my book suggestion for the day is As One - Individual Action Collective Power by Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley. I did not even particularly like the title. But I was wrong - this is an outstanding book. The book introduces 8 archetypes.

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Is That a TV Show or Are You Trying to Sell Me Something?

Harvard Business Review

First there were advertorials and ad copy rendered in a publication's house font (usually but not always discreetly labeled "Paid Advertising"). The most infamous, of course, was the recent Scientology advertorial that was quickly yanked from The Atlantic's website. The publication has since revised its sponsored content policies.).