Chris Brady

JANUARY 19, 2011

I had been bitten by the travel bug. I soon thereafter began traveling for for my job, and went out west to visit friends when I got time off work. Finally, I began traveling abroad on vacations, more to study and learn than as a holiday. It will cost money and gobble up some time, but it will be worth it.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

One of the most dangerous things you can do as a leadership team is to request input and perspectives in a surevey and then NOT TAKE ANY ACTION or share that their time and insights were valuable… Be open to feedback and willing to adapt your approach as needed. Remember, cultural integration is a journey, not a destination.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 1, 2023

In a world where living-abroad experiences are increasingly common and technological advances make cross-cultural travel and communication ever easier, it is critical that research keeps pace with these developments and seeks to understand how they affect people,” they explain.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The following excerpt is from the introduction of Destination Facilitation: A Travel Guide to Training Around the World edited by Donna Steffey. Hamza gestured with an open hand and said, “Please, sir.” It is important to be open to feedback when working internationally to notice the “awkwardness” of a situation and make adjustments.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Compassionate Leadership The world today is in dire need of positive, empathetic, and compassionate leadership, and this need is beautifully addressed in the book, Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It. Doug Lennick is the founding CEO of think2perform , a high-performance leadership development firm.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Keep an open mind, check your assumptions about engagement at the door, and get ready unleash the full potential of your people and your organization. Over the years, he’s traveled extensively around the world teaching for numerous international organizations. All High Performance Organizations have four things in common.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 3, 2017

He wanted to see if he could travel around the world on the kindness of strangers. This birthed The Kindness Diaries, a book and an original series on Netflix where Leon travels the globe on Kindness One relying on the kindness of others. The Motorcycle Diaries was the first foray into traveling around the world on kindness.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. Most books aren’t honest enough about how hard it is to reset ,” adds Homkes.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 22, 2022

They opened up differentials between groups and between different societies. Bayly, Cambridge University historian and author of a historical study on globalization, from his book The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.” A new species might emerge.

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Supply Chain Open-book Travel Strategic Planning 75

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Opening your own mind to the differences in cultures will help you understand what kind of perspectives you might encounter in global expansion, international sales negotiations or hiring discussions for a new regional vice president. Personnel in human resources, public relations, and corporate communications support those executive leaders.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 1, 2014

Nurture your network by sending articles, books and emails to people to show you’re thinking about them. Have a point of view before you start a book or article and see if what you think is confirmed or refuted by the author. Try developing concepts later on. Travel extensively. Network intensely. Read all the time.

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Committee Career Travel Learning-by-Doing 341

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 30, 2017

From growing a successful start-up, to writing a book and speaking internationally about workplace culture, to making a solid attempt at being a decent wife and mother of three kids; I require an enormous amount of mental bandwidth. Our brains are lazy and want to travel the fastest pathways. As a leader, this is enormously helpful.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 24, 2017

When Costco opened a location in our area, my wife and I became members. In early August I traveled to Seattle to attend a portion of Costco’s Annual Managers Meeting where I gave a keynote speech based on my book Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work. (In

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

This is where the successful startups have excelled -- taking what exists and challenging it to either create something new with more value or open up to new target groups. DIY chain Lowe’s, for example, is building 3D printers that print in zero gravity, thus opening up entirely new markets for themselves.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 14, 2017

Fox as the 17-year old Marty McFly, the enigmatic Christopher Lloyd as Doctor (Doc) Emmett Brown, and Crispin Glover as George McFly in a far-out story about time travel and the implications time travel can have on the universe. Automation can go wrong: Back To The Future opens with Doc Brown’s alarm clock going off.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

  In an average year, I'll travel internationally once or twice.    In an average year, I'll travel internationally once or twice.    It's the cleanest, most open, quietest airport I've been in in a long time.    Not a lot of fun really.   Maybe ever. 

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Jason Womack

OCTOBER 5, 2014

In fact, I wrote the book Your Best Just Got Better while I was traveling across 4 different countries, visiting more than 15 cities, working wit more than 20 clients. Each week for the next month I’ll review and comment on your comments - and one lucky writer will win a signed copy of my book! A travel day. A work day.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2018

In November of that year, Roosevelt embarked on a 17-day trip to Panama (and Puerto Rico) becoming the first president to travel outside the U.S. He was a speed-reader, typically reading one to three books a day. In the April 1905 photo at the right, he reads a book with his dog Skip on his lap. while holding office.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 27, 2018

It’s no secret that today’s professionals need to take charge of their own growth and development. If you’re remote, travel to the main office for town halls, special events, or occasional staff meetings. Welcome it with open arms. Peruse job openings. Learn more about the book and get free bonus content at [link].

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Understanding how to tap your own entrepreneurial superpowers is the premise of The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries and Outsiders Succeed , a new book by Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. Tell us about the background of your book collaboration.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 16, 2019

It is unusual of for me to do interviews or promote books on this site. And when I read her latest book called “Self as Coach, Self as Leader”, I knew that you also needed to hear what she had to say. the book is accessible, compelling, and tells a story that shows how difficult it is to be a great coach.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2021

While the initial announcement focused on areas such as CV development and finding jobs rather than utilizing a data-driven approach such as that outlined in the Accenture project, the potential is clear. However, we see that STARs travel shorter skills distances for less wage gain than workers with four-year degrees,” they explain.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 31, 2020

After reading the book, I reached out to talk to the authors about their views of leadership today. This taught me the power of relentlessly pursuing a goal and how to leverage your relationships to help you open doors that are shut. You start your book on leadership by talking about the power of focus. The Power of Focus.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The constant digital transformation has been picking up pace rapidly in recent years as technology keeps shifting and opening up new avenues for work just as quickly as it offers itself up as a replacement. Garter, Inc.

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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. Have you ever heard of an “absentee leader” or manager?

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

You need to adapt the traits and develop the skills that make leaders into great leaders. Travel or use electronic conferencing to connect with those who are far away. In every communication—public or private, with people at every level of the organization and outside—be open, transparent and forthcoming. Stay open to learning.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Ironically, I had to travel to the opposite side of the globe before I invested the time to read what I have since considered the greatest leadership book of all-time: Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie was an American writer, lecturer and training developer born into humble circumstances in 1888.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Take time-management training through the many books, courses, internet resources, coaching, and other options that are widely available. If lack of time is your reason for not investing more in your personal growth and development, figure out what’s chewing up your time. Do they clearly reflect your top goals and priorities?

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Tips Restructuring Constraint Open-book 81

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Web Developer. Many web developers work remotely, helping design, develop, test, and maintain websites and apps for different customers. Sites like Upwork, and freelancer.com let individuals advertise their services, such as web developers, copywriters, graphic designers, etc. Online Travel Agent. Personal Shopper.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2022

Web Developer. Many web developers work remotely, helping design, develop, test, and maintain websites and apps for different customers. Sites like Upwork, and freelancer.com let individuals advertise their services, such as web developers, copywriters, graphic designers, etc. Online Travel Agent. Personal Shopper.

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Advertising Press Release Travel Career 52

Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

Bob Lisser, author and business strategist, unveils the secrets to unlocking this growth advantage in his book aptly titled The Growth Advantage. Lisser’s book is divided into three parts, each focusing on a crucial aspect of growth: the Planning Advantage, the Execution Advantage, and the Company Advantage.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Much like the GPS you use when travelling, the Life GPS® helps to get you where you want to go by clarifying the desired destination and outlining the steps you’ll need to take to get there. Next month, for the first time, I’m offering an open opportunity to create your own Life GPS® with some coaching and guidance from me.  

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

We did it because we knew we that we were ‘in the right,’ so to speak—that we had the skills, the knowledge, and the passion necessary for opening up an online retail business. Luck is only a part of the equation, though, as I would like to tell others who are also interested in trying their hand at opening online retail businesses.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

One of the early scenes in the movie is Gekko giving a speech to promote his new book, Is Greed Good?, Since this is a PG-13 rated blog, I won’t share his opening line but there are a lot of good ones such as, “You’re the NINJA generation – no income, no jobs, no assets.”   to a full house of business school students.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

If you travel as much as I do, you are probably familiar with the “Three G’s” as it applies to airport fare—Grumpy, Grouchy and Gross. I found myself standing outside the closed and gated doorway to an Applebee’s restaurant ten minutes before opening time. I was wrong! Select the right people.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Well, that’s exactly what you get when you read the new book , Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs,Executives and Small Business Owners. Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. Six road trips across the U.S.

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Travel PR Learning-by-Doing Open-book 69

Skip Prichard

APRIL 26, 2022

The compassionate leader will take the time to understand the other person’s issues/challenges/problems, and together they will engage in a conversation to develop action steps that lead to impactful solutions. Additionally, having an open-door policy no longer cuts the leadership mustard. Sometimes this will be done alone.

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