Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? The Power of Trust : How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It by Sandra J. Blog Post ). How did you react? What helped? What didn’t? Blog Post ).

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Here is Collin Powell’s 13 Rules of Leadership. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Consider : Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking In Your Organization by Daniel Patrick Forrester. Great by Choice : Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Leadership matters now more than ever.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

He took bold action and held a position of power no African-American before him had held. Collin Powell was angry when the French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin attacked the United States position leading up to the Iraq War. Nobody’s as powerful as we make them out to be. Be the first. Great leaders go first.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 21, 2009

Recently I decided to re-read (actually listened to) to the classic business book Good To Great by Jim Collins where he discusses, among other things, the value of people. Collins makes an important distinction with regard to the people in an organization: you need to get the right people.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 4, 2011

Taylor and Polly G. Taylor and Polly LaBarre explain in this book, Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-70) was a wealthy land speculator in southwest Texas who cared [.]. Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win William C.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 7, 2018

If you can’t, you may have to consider getting them off of your bus (you know, like Jim Collins would tell you)… Or would it be spaceship in the Ratchet & Clank world? As Ratchet (James Arnold Taylor) is working out to the TV screen, the Richard Simmons-like instructor tells the viewer feeling the burn is good.

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