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Powering with Passion and Teaming with Energy

The Practical Leader

As he did so often throughout his long career, the “father of modern management,” Peter Drucker, gets to the heart of effective leadership; “Increasingly ’employees’ have to be managed as partners… partners cannot be ordered. Increasingly, therefore, the management of people is a ‘marketing job.’

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. Human Resources.

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To P or Not to P: Does Your Purpose Provoke Passion?

The Practical Leader

Many more people are searching beyond a job or career to find a calling. And don’t delegate purpose to marketing. The pandemic pause caused many people to rethink what work is giving them besides income. Most of us don’t just want a job or an existence. We want to make a difference.

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Are Business Schools Clueless or Evil?

Harvard Business Review

Pfeffer , Goshal , Bennis , Mintzberg , Adler , Khurana , Starkey , Podolny , to name a few. A growing segment of the workforce no longer spends their careers in the same organization, city, or even country. Not only in marketing rhetoric but also in educational practice. Leading scholars, best-selling authors, deans.

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5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For

Harvard Business Review

The answers “I am not up to much” and “I have some time on my hands, actually” are not going to do much for your internal status and career. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Stuff happens.