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Vulnerability: Smart Seems Stupid to Knuckleheads

Leadership Freak

Glimpses of vulnerability: When I asked Jim Parker, former CEO… Continue reading → Vulnerability is mocked by arrogance and rejected by fools. Smart people have told me some wildly underwhelming things that eventually dawned on me.

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Weekly Round-Up: CEO Mission Statements & Speaking Out, How Comms Can Help AAPI Heritage Education, Question Assumptions for Better Leadership, Appreciation for Remote Workers

leaderCommunicator

This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: Why Every CEO Should Have A Personal Mission Statement By Melody Wilding ( @MelodyWilding via @ChiefExecGrp ), Chief Executive Do you have a personal mission statement? Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts.

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CEO Spotlight: Interview with Cyril Samovskiy, CEO and Founder of Mobilunity

CEO Insider

With its very much engineering-like traditional educational system, with dozens of thousands of highly educated and very sharp-minded people getting to the “wild” market of the 90s, it was obvious such a talent capital […]. Even back to 2010, Ukraine was already known for the Development talent it has.

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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. You know this company. For Microsoft, the future looked bleak.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. At the end of the year, Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison releases The Five Graces of Life and Leadership.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Whether leading an emerging growth company or a large multi-national corporation, aside from the CEO , there is arguably no position that has impact and contribution like the CHRO. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. He is a highly valued and trusted thought partner to CEO Bruce Broussar d.

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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. In 1997 he was awarded an Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year.

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