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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. Meet your commitments. Don’t make a commitment you cannot keep. If the situation changes and you find that you can’t keep a commitment, notify the individual immediately. She may have made a commitment to others, based on your commitment to her.

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Women, Invest in Yourselves

Women on Business

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. For me, pursuing my career in financial services has always factored into my new year’s resolutions. As a young “career woman” I was taken aback, though I knew deep down he was right.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. He is the poster child for a thoughtful, caring, empathetic, and committed leader who just also happens to be wicked smart. He began his career at the U.S.

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Hey Leaders – What’s Your Relationship Status?

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We must be “just” in our actions and behave in a manner that is aligned with honorable values and commitments. I have never, in my 23-year career, heard of a team who has “too much” communication, or from a team who believed the communication was “too good.” We must avoid overcommitting and do what we say we’re going to do.

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If They Won’t Change, You’d Better Move on!

Marshall Goldsmith

A man or woman who does not whole-heartedly commit to change will never change. I believed the clients when they said they were committed to changing, but I had not drilled deeper to determine if they were telling the truth. It can’t be dictated, demanded, or otherwise forced upon people. I had erred profoundly in client selection.

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How to Change the World One Pizza at a Time

Steve Farber

.” Stephens joined Marco’s Pizza in 2004 when it was a successful but regional chain operating 110 stores in three states. Now, he’s the president and chief operating officer for Marco’s (and was featured earlier this year on CBS’ Undercover Boss ). ” Raise others up.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S.