Christie Caldwell, Director of Consulting (Asia-Pacific), Aperian Global The HR VP for a major US corporation leans across a broad desk on the 33rd floor of a glossy office building in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district. “We basically have a leadership crisis here in APAC when we start to hit the director level. From this level […]
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With the holidays here, we will soon find ourselves outside of the office as leaders and members of a different type of team. Apart from serving as CEOs of our organizations, we are also children, parents and siblings. We are cousins, aunts and uncles, and friends to others. As you take time to reflect on the importance
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Barbara Wittmann, Leadership Coach What we can learn from tribal culture to inspire sustainable business 10 years ago I walked away from a fancy corporate Job and started my own IT consulting business in Munich, Germany. In a highly competitive market it was not easy as a small player and “newbie” to get ahead. In
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You may remember George Burns. The cigar-gumming circular-bespectacled comedian. He was known for many things from his acting parts in Oh, God and The Sunshine Boys from his earlier vaudeville fame to the fact that he lived to be 100. You may not know that he was born Nathan Birnbaum. He was one of 12
Ever find yourself on a team or in an organization that’s struggling because of a leader’s poor decision? Citizens clamor about such crippling effects by their politicians routinely. You sit back and reflect on the leader personally and wonder why a savvy, experienced, and ordinarily capable person could make such a stupid decision or policy—one
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When we silence the fears in our heads, we clear the way for more dispassionate, rational thinking. That allows us to shift from a fear mentality (there will never be enough) to one of fortitude (I have plenty, or at least enough) to be successful/ happy/respected/financially stable. A mindset shift leads to better calls, but
Sidney M. Sadeghi, Attorney, Copenbarger & Associates As any seasoned business owner or CEO will tell you, it costs a lot of money to pursue a lawsuit through the trial phase. A case can literally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to take to trial. Depending on whether your attorney has been hired on an
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As I got up and started my morning, I told my plants and rocks what we had accomplished for humanity yesterday, and I asked them for guidance for today. Looking around I also realized that a white orchid that has been with me for two blooming cycles was doing its best to hold it together.
Bill Clark, CEO & Founder, MicroVentures Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) has long been in limbo, waiting for the SEC to vote on the final rules since the act was signed into law in the spring of 2012. But with the SEC having just announced the rules for Title
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John Sweeney & Elena Imaretska, Co-authors, The Innovative Mindset: 5 Behaviors for Accelerating Breakthroughs As leaders, we typically oversee finance, operations, marketing, communications, human resource and even innovation officers. We empower individuals in these roles to evaluate, orchestrate, strategize, create, hire and innovate. However, sometimes there is a common misconception that empowerment is a handoff,
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