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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. Keep moving! Document your life.

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

Eric Jacobson

In his book, Paul demonstrates how storytelling is a powerful business tool that can mean the difference between mediocre results and phenomenal success. Being a new author, you don’t really know what to expect in terms of book sales, marketing efforts, media exposure, translation rights, etc. Any surprises? It’s all new territory.

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A Short History of Radio Explains the iPhone’s Success

Harvard Business Review

The FRC restricted WCFL’s hours and reduced its power. Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. .” Armstrong’s Killer App. Edwin Howard Armstrong was a science prodigy. All Armstrong needed was a radio spectrum for his radios. Then he paused.

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

Someone has incorporated the power of story into presentations!” For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is. Thanks, Nancy!”

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Out with the Old (but Really Great Business Stories), in with the New

Harvard Business Review

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired an Employee in Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. What made the typically affable Armstrong snap?

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What Your Moonshot Can Learn from the Apollo Program

Harvard Business Review

In January Google ended Project Titan, an initiative to blanket the earth in Wi-Fi with the help of solar-powered drones. ” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. .

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

Strategy Driven

I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame is now out in all three e-book formats: iTunes , Kindle , and Nook.

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