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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

All organizations, lawful and unlawful, face the same corporate governance problem: how to attract, retain, and motivate a self-interested workforce to achieve the organization’s mission and strategy. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote. These include: 1.

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How living at a Zen Buddhist monastery taught you how to be a better entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

The short and most Zen answer is that I did not learn how to be a better entrepreneur by living in a Zen Buddhist monastery. Being a Zen Buddhist monastery taught me how to be in a zen Buddhist monastery. I learn how to expand my peripheral vision and look at things through different angles at the same time.

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Does AI And Automation Do More Harm Than Good?

The Horizons Tracker

This involved learning how to prepare, repair, and supervise the machines. Evaluation of scientific work is frequently based on outcomes such as grants and peer-reviewed publications. The scientists also needed to be trained to work effectively so that they could function alongside the robot.

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WHE23: Slim-by-Design Workplace: Mindless Eating Solutions for a Healthier Workforce | with Brian Wansink

Engaging Leader

The answer is not to tell people how to eat, or to limit their lunchtime menu to spinach and legumes. They share ideas for “mindless” eating solutions for a healthier workforce, and explain how leaders can use a 100-point scorecard to see where you are – and how to get where you want to be. Brian Wansink, Ph.D.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. Originally published in early 2017, The Owl Approach combines a how-to guide for leadership storytelling with examples of actual stories shared with Coletta's staff at Kent Hospital in Warwick, RI during her tenure as President. I drive a Fiat 500.

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Possibility Maximizer: The Leadership Quarterly

Sales Wolf Blog

The Resource: The Leadership Quarterly What it is: The Leadership Quarterly is a peer reviewed journal that is published six times a year (four quarterly issues plus two "Special Issues").  This in itself should tell you how strongly I feel about the value of this publication that I would recommend it to you.

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Review of From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

The Practical Leader

Arthur is currently an American social scientist and Harvard professor, writer of “How to Build a Life” column in The Atlantic, and podcast host of “The Art of Happiness.” When you are young, you can generate lots of facts; when you are old, you know what they mean and how to use them.”

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