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Dealing with Stress — A CEOs View

Friday, February 6, 2009

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One of my CEO friends was asked by a young management student: “How do you deal with the stress of so many challenges at once? I have been only a manager before going back to school and the stress was really challenging?” My friend answered this way: “First and foremost, you need to develop a […]

Taking Charge of Your Behavior: How Does That Grab You?

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Have you had a moment of stress when you reacted instinctively and drew back when you should have faced it? Or, when provoked, you attacked in anger only to realize afterward it wasn’t in your own interest? What was going on inside you? One of the lessons from the Strozzi leadership workshop is to pay […]

Why We Behave As We Do: Brain, Sex and Videotape

Saturday, April 26, 2008

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What holds you back from doing something that worries you? What makes you do something you know is not in your own interest? Why does this get even more true of elderly people? For years, I have been studying:  1. Shaping experiences — the events that shape our deepest abilities to take charge of our […]

What Made jack welch JACK WELCH

How Ordinary People Become
Extraordinary Leaders

by Stephen H. Baum (Random House)

Most leaders of American companies started out as ordinary people. What prepared them for the top job?

Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?

"Lessons for life about the core leadership traits of character, risk taking decisiveness and the ability to engage and inspire followers."
--Jim Clifton, CEO, The Gallup Organization

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