Often we try to attract talent by doing what we like rather than what would attract the individual. Dale Carnegie has a great story in his business books How to Win Friends and Influence People "I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer....
Topics: attracting customers, attracting talent, business books, how to win friends and influence people

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Global warming is often seen as a new idea, in fact the term was used by Svante Arrhenius in 1896. So why has it taken so long to be at the forefront of the world's mind? Well it shows that facts are not enough to convince people. Facts do not sway...
Topics: Business, emotion

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Theodore Levitt , the Harvard Professor challenged the railroad business in the 1960's asking "What business are you in?" They saw themselves as in the railroad business, but he challenged them to think differently. Together they decided...
Topics: Business, business review, exerience, focus, transportation

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Now I am not saying that as a business leader you should be rash about decisions, however as Jason Jennings and Luarence Haughton say in the title of their book " It's not the BIG that eat the SMALL, its the FAST that eat the SLOW"...
Topics: business leaders, decision making, leadership development, meetings, risk

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I was reading ChaosScenario blog and came across a new book that talks about lessons in leadership from leaders who are now dead. Here is some insight from Ray Kroc of MacDonalds - it also shows how building companies is hard, no one not even the greats..
Topics: business anecdotes, franchise, lessons + leadership, macdonalds, ray kroc

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