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Communication Skills: The Key to Achieving any Goal or Enabling any Process

Patrick Alain Communication skills are key to achieving any goal or enabling any process. A leader with great ideas and strong skill is of little or no use if he is unable to communicate his thoughts, opinions and plans to the team following him. Vision, command, innovativeness, bravery and foresight are all indispensable traits of […]

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The Fine Line of Money and Success

Self Governance

Jeff Gitterman Most classic success stories go something like this: “I had nothing, then discovered a new way of thinking, turned my life around and got everything I ever wanted…” I could tell you one such story. But that’s not really what this is about. I started working in the financial field in 1990. That

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Do As I Say, Not As I Do – The All-too-Common Leadership Creed

Leadership, Self Governance

Beverly D. Flaxington I often remind my coaching clients that the reason most companies have a pyramid structure is that not many people are cut out for leading the charge. Unfortunately, very often a person who is politically connected, or who has done a good job and is technically competent, or who has paid their

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10 Powerful Insights To Developing Transformative Mentoring Relationships

Self Governance

Vaughn L. McKoy Mentorship changed my life. It helped me survive the streets and escape the poverty and the seemingly inescapable cycle of drugs, crime, prison and death that traps young people, especially African-American boys. Over the course of 44 years, many men and women have played crucial roles in my development at various stages.

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Ten Habits of Highly Effective Stress Managers

Self Governance

Allen Elkin Hoboken, NJ (June 2013)—Benjamin Franklin once commented that “…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Well, Ben, most Americans have a third item to add to your list: stress. If you’re reading this, chances are you’re one of the millions of people who are stressed in every aspect

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How Not To Be An Excuse Artist – Getting Past What Life Throws at You to Still Get Things Done

Self Governance

“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” ~Earl Nightingale Memorial Day in the US marks the unofficial beginning of summer. Depending on

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5 Reasons Why You Should Seek Rejection

Sales, Self Governance

Robert D. Smith Nearly 40 years ago, I learned the one business lesson that became the foundation of every success I’ve ever enjoyed. I was out of college for the summer and working as a door-to-door educational material salesman for the Southwestern Company. Believe me when I tell you that there is no better introduction

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Grit: The Unexpected Key to Success

Leadership, Self Governance

Jim Leighton Organizations and individuals that create lasting change share one common trait and it’s grit. Grit is having a resilient attitude in the face of failure or despair. It means enduring years of obscurity and hard work without reaping the immediate payoff. Grit brings to mind pictures of the old American frontier, of pioneers

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Do You Ever Hide Your Wharton Degree?

Self Governance

First know that I am honored to have earned a Wharton MBA. Wharton is the most intellectually stimulating place that I have ever been. However, as an entrepreneur sometimes I hide the fact that I have a Wharton MBA. Why? As a starter, Poets & Quants reveals that 16.8% of Wharton MBA applicants were admitted

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Talent Management Lessons From Tim Tebow

Leadership, Self Governance

Say what you will about Tim Tebow, believe what you want to believe about him because I am not here to sell you on him. I am here to talk about a lesson that became painfully apparent for those watching when he was cut by the New York Jets this off season. It is a

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