Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

” – Thomas Merton. Forget it, says Skip Prichard of Leadership Insights. Follow the advice of Tristan Wember of Leadership Thoughts and restore balance in a day. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership observes that we keep trying to cram more and more into the day. What is Worklife Balance? Follow Michelle.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 15, 2014

Just Liste n is the book to read to learn the strategies to make you more compelling, and break down the walls that keep you from getting through to the people you need to buy into your ideas and goals. Thomas Merton Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Know that your vulnerability can be your strength.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

But there may be another reason that winners keep winning, a reason that is particularly useful to understand business leadership: Some people tend to be unrealistically optimistic, a view that sometimes makes itself come true. The lesson for leadership is clear. But leadership is so much more than correct calculation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The sociologist Robert Merton dubbed this "The Matthew Effect," where the rich (in every sense of the word, from money to status to fame) get richer just because advantages beget more advantages. Another key strategy is to match the person to the situation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. Instead of letting the bankers strike collapse their prosperity, people decided, simply, that they could get on with the day-to-day stuff of banking themselves.

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