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A new year message from Ann Francke OBE: Let’s be more Taylor Swift in 2024

Chartered Management Institute

Harvard University is now even offering a “Taylor Swift and Her World” class! What’s great about Taylor Swift is that her message is so positive. So go on, try it out, build on this phenomenon yourself, live your best life, be a little bit more Taylor Swift in 2024. First, we need to recognise her talent.

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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.

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Don’t Pay It Back: How Positive Influence Leaders Pay It Forward

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Positive influence leaders make a big impact on the people they encounter and the outcome of that positive leadership is to pay it forward and help others. Today’s post is by Glenn Parker, author of Positive Influences.

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Dare Yourself to Face Tough Situations

Lead Change Blog

What if you spent the time imagining a positive future beyond the difficulty that’s coming? David Taylor-Klaus is the author of the book Mindset Mondays with DTK: 52 Ways to REWIRE Your Thinking and Transform Your Life , and the founder of DTK Coaching where he reintroduces successful entrepreneurs and senior executives to their families.

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Made From Scratch

Leading Blog

But then founder Kent Taylor is not a conventional guy. Throughout the book, his colleagues, friends, and family members weigh in on Taylor’s remarkable journey, and at the end of each chapter, he summarizes lessons he had learned along the way. My counsel is to be the most positive person in the room. Most [leaders] are made.

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A Leader’s Guide To Work In An Age Of Upheaval

Eric Jacobson

Taylor, Jr. Taylor, the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), shares his personal experiences and candid, compassionate and practical thoughts on how to transform the way to select, retain and train employees in today’s, post-COVID and radically changed business environment. Taylor, Jr.

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Texas Roadhouse and a Leader’s Legacy

Mark Sanborn

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. Kent Taylor, founder of Texas Roadhouse, not only openly admits that three of his first five restaurants failed, but he has a memento from each mounted behind his desk with a plaque detailing the money lost. .