The Practical Leader

AUGUST 3, 2022

The vibrational energy we put out to the universe, and the energy frequency we’re tuned into, create our reality. There is no objective reality. We don’t see the world as it is; we see the world as we are. These are the glasses we put on to look at every aspect of our lives.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

My guess (only a guess) is that whenever a list of the greatest storytellers throughout history is compiled, Charles Dickens would be among those included.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another&# - Charles Dickens Categories: About The Book Daily Guest Post FTC Notice – conflicts of interest Latest Articles Motivational Business Quotations Time Leadership Audio CD Your days seem to get busier and longer.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Does it mean that we have to turn into someone like Charles Dickens’ Uriah Heep to be humble? building awareness Building Relationships Employee engagement Leadership Leadership Development Leading Teams Character-based Leadership Charles Dickens humility Jim Collins Level 5 leadership' Certainly not.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 23, 2019

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has never gone out of print since he self-published it in 1843! Although he might be better off with fewer cookies and more carrots, he does take the pause that refreshes and makes sure his team is well fed too. Or…how about Life and Leadership Lessons from Scrooge?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 26, 2014

Does it mean we have to turn into someone like Charles Dickens’ Uriah Heep to be humble? building awareness Building Relationships Employee engagement Leadership Leadership Development Leading Teams organizational culture Uncategorized Character-based Leadership Charles Dickens humility Uriah Heep' Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

In a recent essay , Verlyn Klinkenborg connected Charles Dickens's extraordinary creative output to his nightly walking. "He Under the pseudonym Boz, Dickens wrote, 'There is nothing we enjoy more than a little amateur vagrancy, walking through London as though 'the whole were an unknown region to our wandering mind.'".

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2016

One of my personal holiday traditions involves watching the many films based on A Christmas Carol , the Charles Dickens classic short story, as often as possible and with an open mind. Happy Holidays to one and all, however you choose to celebrate during this festive time of year!

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Charles Dickens said it best in his novel Dombey and Son : “…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!” Guest post from Merrick Rosenberg : At extreme levels, our most admirable personality traits undermine us. To understand the vice , and address it, we must examine the virtue first.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens, British novelist (1812-1879) “Gratitude is the heart’s memory.” – French Proverb “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 2, 2011

The committee was headed by John Stuart Mill with other prominent members including Thomas Huxley, Charles Darwin and Henry Fawcett, a professor of political economy at Cambridge. On the opposing side defending the governor was another committee. This one was headed by Thomas Carlyle.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 13, 2010

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.” - Charles Dickens Being compassionate means being considerate of people’s feelings. Life is full of disappointments. With so much pain in the world, it’s easy to create barriers to protect yourself from being hurt.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Growing up we even read Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol aloud while sitting by the fire place – it doesn’t get much more Norman Rockwell than that. Like many families, we have our holiday season traditions, from trees, to cards and gifts, to caramel cinnamon sticky buns on Christmas morning.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2011

To quote Charles Dickens, is it the best of times or the worst of times? Winning in Today’s Environment : Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer. by Oracle Corporation. Learn how you can deploy several best practices to achieve unparalleled sales success in your organization.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 7, 2012

We decided to tailor a session for her group that will especially focus on applying the leadership skills and approaches to their overwhelming problems of too much to do with too little time.

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Building Personal Strength

JULY 18, 2010

." - Stephen Covey, American author (1932- ) "Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to it completely." - Charles Dickens, British novelist (1812-1879) "There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Charles Dickens frequently described the lives of people who were almost constantly in the surviving box. These are activities that don't cause much joy or satisfaction and do not contribute to long-term benefit in your life.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

Charles Dickens was killing it in 1842. You can read more in Dickens' American Notes , or simply watch this fabulous episode of the American TV show Bonanza. ). That state of affairs, while hardly to Dickens' pecuniary advantage, suited American publishers just fine. But in early 1842 he visited the U.S. Shock absorbed.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 18, 2010

Does it mean that we have to turn into someone like Charles Dickens’ Uriah Heep to be humble? He refers to it as “The Five&# , meaning level five leadership and explains it here: Do we have to be captains of industry to give the gift of humility? The simple answer is no. Certainly not. But, it does take practice and sincerity.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Those who have read Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield will remember the obsequious Uriah Heep, whose sole purpose seemed to be to get what he wanted by any nefarious means, all the while hiding under the cloak of humility.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 21, 2009

So, to continue with this love/hate theme, here are a few things that I love and a few things that I don’t love about Christmas Christmas movies I Love Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It’s hard not to love that. I am partial to the version starring Alistair Sim. What could you do without? What would you change if you could?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

Charles Dickens, Bleak House — Dickens' tenth novel explores the human cost of prolonged litigation through the eyes of Esther Summerson, who is caught up in a multi-generational dispute over the disposition over an inheritance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

A Tale of Two Cities , Charles Dickens. But you're not Dickens, and you're not trying to entertain a Victorian readership who reads by gas lamps and constantly fears explosions, and you're not being paid by the word. Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

After all, as the program organizer said in some exasperation, these guys were "working with a business model that hasn't changed since the time of Charles Dickens!". You could forgive them for a reasonable degree of complacency. Well, we did warn them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

To some, those of us who use analytics are no different than the strict headmasters and factory owners that populate the novels of Charles Dickens. They say that workforce analytics is a way of treating people like widgets. Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. He's "[a] man of facts and calculations. A man who is.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Charles Dickens famously took three-hour walks every afternoon — and what he observed on them fed directly into his writing. Soren Kierkegaard found his constitutionals so inspiring that he would often rush back to his desk and resume writing, still wearing his hat and carrying his walking stick or umbrella.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Toby Lester is a journalist, an editor, and an independent scholar. In addition to writing books, he is a longtime contributor to The Atlantic, for whom he has written extensively, on such topics as the reconstruction of ancient Greek music, the revisionist study of the Qur’an, and the attempt to change alphabets in Azerbaijan. Between [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here is the introduction to an interview of Sylvia Nasar by Rob Norton as part of “The Thought Leader Interview” series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Here is the introduction to an interview of Sylvia Nasar by Rob Norton as part of “The Thought Leader Interview” series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company.

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