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Leadership Lessons From Kent Taylor, Founder Of Texas Roadhouse

Eric Jacobson

From cover-to-cover of Made From Scratch you’ll learn the leadership lessons of the late Kent Taylor , founder of the restaurant chain Texas Roadhouse. In the new book, Taylor recounts how he built the restaurant chain from the ground up after being rejected more than 80 times as he pitched the idea for the business. Keep it simple.

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0525 | Chris Taylor

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Chris Taylor is the founder of actionablebooks.com , a training and development company that spreads actionable insights from business books in the form of summaries and workshops. The post 0525 | Chris Taylor appeared first on LDRLB. In this interview, we discuss the role of culture in leading virtual teams.

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Leading Thoughts for September 28, 2023

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Bill Taylor on humility and ambition: “Exceptional performance begins with extraordinary insights. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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5 Relationship Books For Leaders To Read In February 2023

Joseph Lalonde

Relactional Leadership: When Relationships Collide with Transactions by Ford Taylor: That’s not a misspelling for the title of the book. Ford Taylor understands that business is not all relational. Taylor will help you bridge the gap between transactional people and relational people. It’s also not all transactional.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders. It's time to fight back.

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James Taylor: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. James is passionate about using decisioning technologies like business rules and predictive analytics to help companies improve decision making and develop smarter and more agile processes and systems.

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Leading Thoughts for April 8, 2021

Leading Blog

Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor on vision: “The only way to succeed in the marketplace today—the marketplace of individuals or products or services or ideas—is to know your own story and to follow it into the future. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. Source: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.

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