Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

As we’ve been traveling for our book tour and media interviews, David and I consistently get asked questions we imagine may be on your mind as well. If you’re looking to buy them for your team, CEO Reads offers some great quantity discounts, and we would be happy to customize with a personalized template.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

Both Katie and I had, and still have, a great love for travel, and in our travels we had developed an appreciation of the brands of both established and emerging designers from around the world. This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

In this era of working remotely, having “commuting executives” who travel from city to city, and leadership that takes on added locations and broader areas, a growing trend has developed where employees don’t see their leaders as much, or hardly at all. Don’t discount off-hours contact.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2011

Years ago my husband and I were fortunate enough to travel to China with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn who was being permitted to bring his Buddhist teachings to the people in Beijing and various outer monasteries. Interesting thought; I know when I take a cup of tea in my hands the first sip makes me feel calm and surprisingly content.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2018

Everyone loves a trip, and if you can incentivise that those who hit their personal and professional development goals a paid sabbatical to travel, people will be flocking to your doors, resume in hand. To that end, as a good employer you are expected to go above and beyond for your employees in the same way they will for you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. On many fronts, artificial intelligence-powered smart speakers and apps seem poised to become the world’s virtual travel agents. People can even book flights through voice-enabled Google Search. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

For most of my prior career, I was a woman who: was happily married, may never have children, would earn a six figure income, was a loyal employee, was an over achiever, traveled to exotic places, would live in my dream home, and wanted to be involved in the highly charged corporate world forever!

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Management Craft

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Our ideas develop and we reshape them. Also, the fine folks at HCI are sharing the following discount with Management Craft readers (I get no cut of this, just passing the info along) for their Learning and Leadership Development Conference (virtual conference admission, no travel required!).

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Do it five times (it gets your blood circulating) When you’re standing in your closet looking for your clothes for the day, slide your left arm down your side, then your right…repeat five times on each side If you can, jump in the shower before you do ANYTHING else in the morning, even before coffee.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

I would love to travel, but I will never have that kind of money.” “The Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. Money never comes easily to me.” “I I never have enough.” “I I don’t deserve to have money.” Money comes to others, but not to me.” “I

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Develop your Expertise Daily ​ Becoming a true expert in any field doesn’t come overnight, it takes months and sometimes even years of consistent study and practice. Gaining the right knowledge is key to developing expertise so be discerning about who and where you get your information from. Keep that receipt, too!

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. Sure, I would keep traveling, and yes, I would keep connecting, but I knew the numbers (and the demands of the business) were working against me.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 27, 2018

Crazy Rich Asians tells the story of the extremely wealthy and good looking Nick Young (Henry Golding) and his girlfriend Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as they travel to Singapore for Nick’s best friend’s wedding. You get the hilarious, entertaining, enjoyable movie Crazy Rich Asians. From there, antics ensue.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

MARCH 11, 2014

They can easily develop an “entitlement” mindset with adverse consequences later. She could blow it all on a single blouse or pair of shoes, or she could take advantage of sales, discount coupons and consignment shops to stretch her dollars. Take money, for example. And by the way, it wasn’t a generous amount.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They have traveled the farthest on the path of change, starting in business more than 50 years ago under leaders who taught them, “Because I said so,” now heading into the sunset of their careers as valuable mentors for next-gen leaders asking, “How can I help you?”. And if leaders were to continually develop and deploy their EQi-2.0

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Chris Brady

AUGUST 3, 2010

    Next, maybe a day or two later, I pulled into the smallparking lot of something called a ‘Supermarket.’   Terri got out to hunt for fruit and such, but it ended upbeing a discount shoe store. John and the Lower 911, to be specific).   It was the best symphonic blues concertany of us could recall.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In addition to improving team dynamics, a company retreat can also provide your employees with valuable training and development opportunities. Professional development. A company retreat can be an ideal setting for professional development and skill-building. Focus on professional development? Enhanced creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. The average U.S. Early adopters could benefit considerably.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. 'Hooray for our side,' they yell, 'All of our problems can be neatly packaged in a ten second soundbite and blamed on the other side,' we are repeatedly led to believe. Thank you for all you do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

One conversation 25 years ago changed business travel for me forever. It was clear that my career as a consultant would involve lots of travel and I had a choice about what I was going to do with that time. The phenomenon is referred to as hyperbolic discounting —the tendency to overvalue rewards now and undervalue them later.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends. Why travel to a supermarket for the monthly big shop if you can buy it online and have it delivered? So with such a track record of strategic innovation, why has Tesco been blindsided by the hard discounters like Germany’s Aldi and Lidl?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2011

It was heavy on visual development capability but light on modeling and simulation, and we kept battling a competitor in the marketplace who had essentially the inverse strengths in a similar product. For example, if you're selling a travel magazine, you could add a free travel video when someone buys a subscription.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

The customer group they envisioned consisted of frequent travelers. So they also crossed out restaurants, bars, and conference facilities — amenities most travelers rarely use. Other hotels in] the industry create hotels that mid-week should be good for a business traveler. It ain’t happening.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Small incentives (such as discounts or coupons) can encourage customers to provide this information. Companies have to develop guidelines for how to act when a particular event occurs. One leading hotel chain, for example, provides travel tips to travelers, even those not staying with them, to further its mission of hospitality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago. The result is a structural transformation of insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. But this only compounded the chaos.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Through our experience utilizing the "jobs-to-be-done" concept in a range of settings, my colleagues and I have developed five tips for would-be innovators: the five Cs of opportunity identification (modeled after marketing's famous four Ps — price, product, place, and promotion). Circumstance. Constraints.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2019

Instead, find a way to turn traveling into a career. With that in mind, here are thirteen of the best jobs for people who love to travel. Being scared of flying shouldn’t hold you back from traveling or making money from it. Travel Agent. You can write from anywhere in the world, and travel as you do so.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Some travel is easing. There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. For many Cubans even at a discount, half your monthly income would go to Netflix. There are still restrictions on American tourist travel.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

We have been working with businesses to develop a strategic framework for when to take a stand on social issues. Delta drew outrage and lost tax breaks when it decided to end a travel discount for the National Rifle Association. What to do, now that the neutral middle ground has become a quicksand? It draws on the work of R.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 22, 2010

And that is an offering not to be discounted. When you need to travel to some place, you will need help. The thing is, people who offer another perspective on a particular situation, even if it doesn’t fit with your view of the world, are giving you an opportunity to think and do something different to help yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Companies without a cafeteria can apply the same thinking to their vending machines, by offering healthy items – and selling them at a discount. In contrast, when our development stalls, we experience boredom and inevitably disengage. L’Oréal offers only healthy food options, eliminating unhealthy snacks entirely.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A passenger jet belonging to a cut-rate airline had recently crashed into the Florida Everglades, and Kinsley argued in Slate that it was appropriate for discount airlines to be more dangerous than the major carriers. Can we harness the information age to develop some sort of calamine lotion to soothe our hysteria in the face of uncertainty?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Consumer markets in the developing world are an enormous but still-untapped opportunity for companies seeking new sources of growth. billion rural consumers and about 3 billion of them live in developing countries in Asia and Africa. Within that group is an even more overlooked opportunity: the rural consumer. Worldwide, there are 3.4

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Women on Business

JANUARY 16, 2011

It’s the story of Miss Abigail, the most sought-after relationship expert to the stars, and her sexy sidekick Paco, as they travel the world teaching Miss Abigail’s outrageously funny and spot-on tips on how to date, mate and marry Follow the rules below to enter the drawing to win one of three pairs of tickets to see the show!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

Recently, a two-year-old Kindle in my household developed screen problems. I rang Amazon in a vague hope they would give me a discount on a new one. In some cases, Amazon has similar information. Worse, it was out of warranty. Suffice it to say, because I had purchased lots of books, I wanted to replace it. I was in for a surprise.

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