How can you get recognized as an upcoming leader if you’re not already in a leadership position? Her’s one key trait you need to have.
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How To Be Seen As A Leader
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Failure Is Not an Option…It’s a Necessity!
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I’m currently reading a fascinating new book by Megan McArdle called The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success. In it, she argues that failure is vital to success, partially because it’s only through making ...
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Is Your Business Impossible to Ignore?
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When the Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show some 50 years ago, none of us could have predicted the unprecedented heights they would subsequently scale. Yet they still electrified the nation. What was it about them that was so captivating–and, more important, how can we apply these lessons to our own businesses?
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What Can You Learn from “Shark Tank”?
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Have you ever watched the TV show Shark Tank? Or, if TV’s not your thing, maybe you’ve read the spin-off book: Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business: How to Launch and Grow a Business from Concept to Cash
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Basically, it’s a show where ...
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Stop Aiming and Fire the Arrow!
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Lorne Michaels—the creator and producer of Saturday Night Live—and I have several things in common:
- We’ve both produced a multiple Emmy Award winning sketch comedy TV show.
- We’ve both spawned national talent (in my case, Joel McHale and Bill Nye the Science Guy; in Lorne’s case, everybody else that you’ve ever heard of).
- We’re both multi-gazillionaires (measured, in Lorne’s case, in U.S. dollars; ...
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Leaders: Do You Know What Your Show Is?
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On September 26, 1990, a brand new show premiered on ABC, and television history was made. This show broke the rules, defied expectations, and was unlike anything anybody had ever seen before. The reason I say the show made history is because TV Guide rated it number 8 in their list of the 50 worst TV shows of all time. The show was called Cop Rock, and it ...
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How to Build the Best Workplace on Earth
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In the current (May 2013) issue of Harvard Business Review, there’s an article called Creating the Best Workplace on Earth. In it the authors talk about what employees really need to be their most productive. Among the six factors they identify is this one: employees need an environment where they can discover and magnify their strengths. In other ...
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Shooting a Script (for business success)
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Bill Stainton – Micromanaging
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The Key to Producing Great Teams
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Since my job is to help leaders produce seriously award-winning teams, I’m exceedingly (some would say irritatingly) interested in what makes great teams tick. Turns out I’m in good company! The folks at MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory have been working on this question for some time now, and they’ve come up with an answer. A single answer.
The MIT ...
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