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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

In our book, Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters; Business Practices , we discovered the leadership principles of organized crime syndicates that forge high-performance teams of very loyal gangsters, incredibly strong brand names and cultures with a long-term perspective and an unrelenting customer focus. Zimmerman , Ph.D.,

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How Our Current Office Shock Can Lead to a Climate-Positive “Officeverse”

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Unexamined assumptions about offices and office work opened into probing questions that demanded careful thought. It took a global pandemic to shake open executive minds to the possibility of better ways of doing office work. Their new book, Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Jan.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

They also cited difficulties in raising finance to help them implement their innovation. Indeed, around a third of innovative SMEs cited taxation, regulations, and the availability of finance as a hindrance to their performance and growth. Indeed, many SMEs pioneer new technologies, products, and services.

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10 Guiding Principles That Will Lead You to Future Happiness and Success

Leading Blog

I wrote the book Always and Never: 20 Truths for a Happy Heart , to help center readers on guardrails for living and leading at your best. A curious, open mind lets in the necessary sunshine. Take care of your health and finances on a daily basis. Read books and magazines that broaden your horizons.

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A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference

Great Results Team Building

It opens the door to making a relevant and trustworthy referral they can consider – And while they appreciate hearing a few names of tremendous speakers I know and trust, it is also a great to help promote people that I know will be fantastic on their stage. Because most organizations don’t bring back the exact same speaker every year.

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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

B LACKSTONE chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen Schwarzman has written a book about the potential that can be realized when you combine personal responsibility with ambition. This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. Here are 25 more rules for work and life that are woven throughout his book: 1.

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Financial Markets are a Psychological Phenomenon

Coaching Tip

Watch this 2-minute video from 2011 where Robert Prechter talks about his developing theory on finance with Douglass Lodmell for The Mind Of Money series. Since then, Bob has been hard at work on his new book about his now fully developed theory on finance (scheduled for completion in 2016).