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Stop Leading! You’re Bleeding Off Passion

Lead Change Blog

Remember Abe Maslow’s famed line: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” If we approach our relationships with followers as fellow travelers on the same train, we begin to acknowledge interdependence. .” It entails choosing partnership over patriarchy.

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Avengers: Infinity War

Joseph Lalonde

Recognize talent: Thanos had traveled to Gamora’s home planet of Zen-Whoberi. They see the talents of others and help them develop those talents. You are exactly what someone needs: Thor, Groot, and Rocket had gone to Nidavellir to have a new hammer created for Thor. Groot was needed to complete the hammer and save Thor.

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. GOALS uses soccer to engage youth in public service and education that improve quality of life and develop new leadership. Mostly this has to do with living in Haiti. In the U.S.,

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Select one (or at the most two), and hammer away at it with all your ability. We take a look at ourselves and see so many areas for improvement that we are tempted to attack them all at once. Resist this temptation. Focus is the key. Take immediate action. Where the fins hit the water is when we take action toward their fulfillment.

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Self-Promotion for Professionals from Countries Where Bragging Is Bad

Harvard Business Review

In Japan, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down. In our travels as professors and speakers, we’ve often heard the same refrain. “I By thinking about personal branding as honoring the time and effort they put into your development, it can make the act itself feel more legitimate. In the U.S.,

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Addiction Marketing

N2Growth Blog

The Tobacco Industry - The tobacco industry has been publicly hammered for selling products that leverage the addictive effects of Nicotine, and even with all the known health hazards smokers face, in many instances the addictive nature of the product is greater than peoples ability to make a logical decision.

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The Branding Logic Behind Google’s Creation of Alphabet

Harvard Business Review

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization.

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