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5 Tips to Increase Workplace Engagement

Great Leadership By Dan

When we feel connected, we operate with a sense of purpose and utilize our many talents and abilities to advance that purpose, consciously as well as subconsciously. Though he did not live to see it, the steps of Neil Armstrong made his dream a reality. The need for connection at work is perhaps stronger today than ever before.

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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Gardner also quotes Scott Armstrong, “an expert on forecasting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania” on his “seer-sucker theory: No matter how much evidence exists that seers do not exist, suckers will pay for the existence of seers.”. Tetlock then correlated their level of fame to the accuracy of their forecast.

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A Deep Dive into Space: A Conversation with Luis Campudoni About His Cross-Agency Apollo Leadership Experience

Experience to Lead

Where I am in my career right now, I’d like to pivot towards the space industry specifically. You know, I saw the different participants coming from backgrounds with a very specific space and operational domain. Luis: (referring to his Star Wars storm troopers zoom background) I always say, I’ve got to bring my troops with me!

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. 6) Career – I’ve always known what I wanted to do and been engaged in work I truly believe in, but I’ve sabotaged myself with too much idealism and not enough business wisdom. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The first which I attended was at the Armstrong-Johnson Ford dealership. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). I wrote editions of the Kalendar for radio and newspapers.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

There was Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the age of 34, and Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the moon at the age of 38. How would a "social enterprise" like PlanetTran, the hybrid car service, operate without Toyota, who makes the Prius, which constitutes their fleet?

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To Make Innovation Stick, Try Trying

Harvard Business Review

Then the companies that considered themselves truly global went a step further, staffing their Chinese operations with Chinese managers. We''ve already bid our goodbyes to stable careers in manufacturing (and, well, long and stable careers in almost everything). Now leading U.S. Worth a try, at least. —Andy O''Connell.