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The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

This post seems to be a good fit for my favorite team, the Bills: How to be a Leader in a Crappy Culture. Anne Perschel takes us on a tour of French Forests and the Cognac industry, to learn why leaders need to create a 400 year business plan and how to get started. Here are 4 challenges and how to manage them.". Buffalo Bills.

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Q&A With Best Selling Author And Expert Storyteller, Paul Smith

Eric Jacobson

Since the book was published about three years ago, my admiration for Paul's passion for storytelling and helping to teach people how to effectively tell stories has only but grown. How would you summarize the overall reaction to your Lead with a Story book? What has Lead with A Story done for your career? Any surprises?

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to a Great Mentor. Remembering Cactus Pryor.

Strategy Driven

He taught me how to deliver live commercials and to ad-lib. Through the remotes, I learned how to feed lines and develop the talent to speak in sound bites, as I do for business media interviews to this day. I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. As an integrated process of life skills, career has its place.

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Small Businesses Need Big Data, Too

Harvard Business Review

A lot of small-firm owners and managers feel that way, and in many cases they’re justifiably proud of their competitive intangibles—a gut sense of the market and the flexibility to change quickly. What you may not realize is that investing in data and learning how to use it might be transformative for your business.

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How to Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague

Harvard Business Review

It could be that they don’t know how to communicate or are afraid of conflict. “Not everyone likes or knows how to publicly discuss or express what they think,” says Su. How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work. .” Consider what’s motivating the behavior. Further Reading.

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How to Have a Year that Matters

Harvard Business Review

To shareholders, to the markets, to "consumers." Lance Armstrong's true north seems to have been trophies — not championships; and the result, I'd bet, is a life that now feels arid, empty, wasted. Here are some pretty good answers, if a snoozer of a year in a cavernous landfill of a life is what you're after.

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