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Executive Presence: What’s Your “Talk Track”?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Elizabeth Freedman (originally published 12/6/2012 on the Bates Communication blog). Elizabeth is one of the instructors in our upcoming UNH Woman''s Leadership Development program. Elizabeth Freedman is an executive coach and senior communications consultant with Bates Communications.

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Plan a Satisfying Retirement

Harvard Business Review

That’s a long time,” says Marc Freedman, CEO of Encore.org and the author of The Big Shift. Give yourself time to rest, renew, and restore,” says Freedman. Your goal, says Freedman, is to “figure out what your priorities are at this juncture in your life.”. Freedman advises taking a “try-before-you-buy” approach.

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Leadership That Longfellow Would Appreciate

Harvard Business Review

The new century, born in the tumult of technological revolution, religious class and economic recession, has presented us with a host of deep-seated, tangled problems that must be met with innovative, multi-disciplinary solutions. One alumnus is now the head of NASA.