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Adolescent Rites of Passage - Something of Monumental Importance Has Been Lost

Building Personal Strength

Louise Carus Mahdi, et al (1996); and From Boys to Men: Spiritual Rites of Passage in an Indulgent Age , by Bret Stephenson (2006). In other words, I was involved in a process that helped me develop personal strengths that would help me throughout my life and careers -and be recognized for doing so! Nine of them! How lucky is that?

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The Stakeholders You Need to Close a Big Deal

Harvard Business Review

Champions understand the personalities and processes on a granular level and can navigate the culture within an organization. The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson. With that, Stephenson felt he could defend his decision. The primary motivation of the champion is status: champions want to feel important.

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Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?

Harvard Business Review

Yet AT&T executives quickly came to believe so strongly in Job’s vision that they skipped internal process protocols to land the deal. Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device. You were betting on Steve Jobs.”

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How to Conduct an Effective Job Interview

Harvard Business Review

Applicants also have more information about each company’s selection process than ever before. If your organization’s interview process turns candidates off, “they will roll their eyes and find other opportunities,” he warns. Here’s how to make the interview process work for you — and for them.

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The 3 Things CEOs Worry About the Most

Harvard Business Review

Randall Stephenson of AT&T explained, “We had 270,000 people we employed around the globe. How did we make sure that our policies and processes reflected the world we lived in, not just where our headquarters were?” We were not a global company yet. ” Regulation and Legislation.

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

Harvard Business Review

” Instead, Hayek advanced the liberal argument of making the most out of the competitive process. This approach was successfully exported after the War to Europe and Japan to help decentralize economic power and promote an effective competitive process. The economist, however, rejected a “dogmatic laissez faire attitude.”