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Why You Shouldn’t Put The Business Cart Before The Leadership Horse

Terry Starbucker

Because as Jack Welch, former CEO of GE has said, It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. It was the road less traveled, because it was bumpy and sometimes outright treacherous. This was the path I took.

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Likability in Leadership—Necessary for Some, a Liability to Others

Great Leadership By Dan

Consulting is a time-intensive business where exhaustive hours are spent traveling to remote locations, making presentations together in close quarter conference rooms, and collaborating with customers. If the answer was, "Oh my, no way ," we’d usually move on to the next highly qualified candidate. You have to like the people you work with.

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Is There a CEO Afterlife? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

GE’s Jack Welch (pictured above) divides his time consulting with companies, travelling, golfing, lecturing at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and donating time and money to business education. Tags: C-Suite , CEO , Human Resources , Jack Welch , Leadership , Life. But, not every CEO follows this trodden path.

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Doing What You Do Best Away from the Office

Coaching Tip

Although I have always been a Microsoft personal computer software customer, I decided to buy a new mobile smartphone from Apple, called the iPhone, for $650 for one major reason: I no longer had to carry my laptop computer with me when I traveled on short business trips. .

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Possibility Maximizer: Rainmaker Group Resources

Sales Wolf Blog

 I have found myself traveling more and more as of late helping Clients to Maximize Possibility in their organizations and am coming up a little short on time this week to put together a full-blown post for my weekly Possibility Maximizer segment.  I hope you find them beneficial and even inspiring!

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The June 2010 Leadership Development Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

posted at Utpal Writes where he shares a great story about a leader beyond his title who chose the road less traveled by assuming responsibility and making a difference. posted at Utpal Writes where he shares a great story about a leader beyond his title who chose the road less traveled by assuming responsibility and making a difference.

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Author Chris Brady's Leadership Blog: Tell Me If Anything Was Ever.

Chris Brady

Posted by: Tim Welch | August 03, 2010 at 12:46 AM Excellent points! We may all have different talents as part of TEAM but you are our focus to achieve great things. Welcome home and God's Blessings to you and your family. My question is.

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