Susan Ford Collins Highly Successful People (HPSs) use their brains more efficiently than others do. Here are three Brain Tips I learned by shadowing HSPs for 20 years and teaching their skills in major corporations. Brain Tip 1: Your brain, like your car, has a GPS When you head out, you must program a destination […]
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In September chief executive Jeff Smisek, and two senior officials of United Airlines stepped down in response to a federal investigation into whether the airline had traded favors with the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The scandal involved United agreeing to reinstate money-losing flights to the airport nearest the
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Welcome to the “Feelings Economy”. You’ve been living in it for some time now: a world where our work and home lives are driven by feelings, not intellect. What makes this so? According to brain science, it is the emotional side of the brain—not the rational, logical one—that tells us what is true. In other
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What use is there in navigating an ethical course if you’re unable to influence the thoughts and actions of others? It’s one thing for you to know right from wrong, and quite another to convince others to act collectively on your knowledge. To put your ethics to work, you have to be able to influence
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Margot Dorfman, CEO, U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce The rise of female entrepreneurship in America is akin to ‘A Tale of Two Cities.” These two “tales” are the hyped up media headlines about women-owned firms that shout about the great rise in women’s entrepreneurship versus the bottom-line “tale” of reality reflected in trillions of dollars
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Dr Yahya Shakweh A recent Harvard survey, of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries concluded that very few top companies, less than 18%, can be rated very effective at either strategy or execution. Only 8% are very effective at both, while 63% were rated neutral or worse on at least one aspect. According to this survey,
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If you don’t mind a huge generalization, I believe that small business owners are an upbeat and positive group. You have to be to start and run a business especially during uncertain economic times. This week when the National Small Business Association (NSBA) released its Year- End Economic Report for 2015, the results were interesting.
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Where do you do your best creative work? As CEOs, we often ignore this simple question, believing that we have to be seen in the office to be seen to be leading. Few of us are creative when we are chained to a desk. As the ultimate leaders of our businesses, we have to be
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Ritch Eich, President, Eich Associated Longtime managers, top executives and CEOs with many years of experience in business possess a special responsibility to their employees and especially the younger managers coming up the organization’s ranks. The senior business leader possesses decades of wisdom, has seen success and failure, and is in a unique position to
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Most people want the corner office, what used to be the country club membership, and the expense account. But are we willing to pay the price? Recently I had the opportunity to be a guest on a morning talk/news show. I had to get up at 4 am to be at the downtown studio at
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