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Creative and Personal Mastery coming to Los Angeles
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Srikumar Rao, author of Are You Ready to Succeed? , is offering his Creative and Personal Mastery course in Los Angeles for the first time this fall. The course has been wildly popular in its previous incarnations at Columbia Business School, the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and London Business School.
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How the Wise Decide: Final Post
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For the past few days, we've been joined by Bryn and Aaron, authors of How the Wise Decide. If you'd like to catch up on their blog posts, start here. This is their final post for our blog.
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How the Wise Decide: Dermot Dunphy, Part III
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This blog post comes from the authors of How the Wise Decide. To read part I, click here and part II. Here's part III: : : : : : : : : Dermot Dunphy, Part III The real challenge confronting Dermot Dunphy as he pursued his vision for Sealed Ait was how to keep the technological edge that allowed Sealed Air to charge premium prices.
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How the Wise Decide: Dermot Dunphy, Part II
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This blog post comes from the authors of How the Wise Decide. To read part I, click here. Here's part II: : : : : : : : Dermot Dunphy, Part II Formulating a vision is one thing, executing it quite another.
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Excerpt from BrandDigital
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The excerpt below is from Allen Adamson's BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World. It is excerpted from Chapter 10, "Start with a Simple Idea. " Allen certainly believes in branding simplicity.
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How the Wise Decide: Dermot Dunphy, Part I
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It's day two of Aaron and Bryn's, authors of How the Wise Decide, joining us to share the problems, lessons and solutions garnered from their interviews with 21 leaders. Today, they're talking aboutDermony Dunphy, the former CEO of Sealed Air. : : : : : : : Dermot Dunphy, Part I Most companies today have vision statements, idealistic slogans intended to guide their management and employees.
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How the Wise Decide: Bill George, Part III
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Part III of the Bill George story, brought to you by the authors of How the Wise Decide. : : : : : : Bill George, Part III Bill George calls his traumatic experience in the Lenox Hill operating room a "power-of-one" observation. That single catheter failure crystallized in a way that no report ever could the problem confronting Medtronic.
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Excerpt from What's Stopping You?
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The following excerpt is the beginning of Chapter Three from the book What's Stopping You? : Shatter the 9 Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business by Duane Ireland and Bruce R. Barringer.
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How the Wise Decide: Bill George, Part II
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Part II of the Bill George story, brought to you by the authors of How the Wise Decide. : : : : : : Bill George, Part II After having a faulty Medtronic catheter thrown at him by an angry surgeon, Bill George began investigating why he hadn't known about quality problems plaguing the catheter business. What he found was a tortuous path that routed the sales reps' field reports about failing catheters through seven layers of bureaucracy before they reached the people who designed the products.
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Welcoming Aaron Sandoski and Bryn Zeckhauser: How the Wise Decide
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Joining us this week on the blog are Bryn Zeckhauser and Aaron Sandoski, authors of How the Wise Decide. They conducted 21 interviews of wise business and government leaders - including, Bill George of Medtronic, Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court, Daniel Kahneman a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, Shelly Lazarus of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and many more. They found six decision-making principles.
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