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What Great Leaders Can Learn from Great Photographers

Harvard Business Review

Sam Abell falls into the latter camp of truly reflective practitioners. Abell has figured out that the way to get a great photograph is not to take it but to make it. The key, Abell learned, is not to chase its unfurling arc: “Let the rope come to you.” Photo Credit: Sam Abell. A sailor will toss a rope.

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The Right Way to Rally Your Troops

Harvard Business Review

.” Those words and others were designed to create clarity amid confusion and uncertainty, to push employees toward candid, honest conversation and to encouraging them to start looking for — and executing on — new and better ways of doing business. “Stop shooting”, he said, followed quickly by: “Abel you’re fired.

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