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Space Leadership Comes Before Selfies

Lead Change Blog

Over the course of his career, he made some decisions about academics and career moves that placed him, ultimately, in exactly the right position. After Massimino’s first extravehicular activity (EVA), he wondered why he wasn’t getting mentioned more as a candidate for the next one. Leaders Never Stop Developing. The answer?

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What Michael Buble Taught Me About Leadership In 3 Minutes

Joseph Lalonde

Image by Eva Rinaldi. While that comment was done in jest, it reminds us we’re not going to be in the same position forever. Never forget your leadership position is only temporary. T here’s a video circulating around the internet from a Michael Buble concert. Post by Michael Drivas.

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Surviving Adversity - 17 Basic Truths

Building Personal Strength

Dr. Edith Eva Eger The quote is from Dr. Edith Eva Eger, clinical psychologist. Blame and condemnation seldom produce positive change and almost always make things worse. "Contrary to popular belief, there are no victims in this world – only willing participants. And everyone has the power to change at any time."

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The Orbital Perspective

Eric Jacobson

Garan is a retired NASA astronaut who has traveled 71,075,867 miles in 2,842 orbits of our planet during more than 178 days in space and 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA (extravehicular activity) during four spacewalks. Well, that''s exactly how astronaut Ron Garan ''s new book, The Orbital Perspective , starts.

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Remembering Two Heroes - One Long Dead, One Alive

Building Personal Strength

I marked my position with a smoke grenade and gave the pilot a vector to the enemy location. In 1985 he rode the space shuttle into earth orbit, where he launched three satellites during 12 hours of EVA space walks. I contacted the operation center by radio and requested air support. It was an AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter.

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7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them

Harvard Business Review

Why it works: Spoken with a tone of enthusiasm and flexibility, this positive statement allows you to bow out of the initial request, while protecting your reputation by: Reframing their idea as a starting point. Eva is an engineer in Silicon Valley. Eva is not deterred by Abe’s cavalier response.

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Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher

Harvard Business Review

In fact, several mentioned — sometimes years later — that the “one-on-one” meetings with him (one-on-one is a personal feedback technique for leadership development used at Intel and described in High Output Management ) had enormous positive impact on their careers. Once, Eva’s mother came too.

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