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The Dark Side of Leadership
If you prefer growth over security, questions over answers, truth over happiness, wisdom over contentment, and making a difference over social acceptance then don’t miss August Turak’s “The Dark Side of Leadership.” It’s the only game in town.
Warren Buffett and Cardinal Lamberto: The Two Best Kept Secrets to Success
These secrets are so powerful that they could almost be considered pure grace. But though we have been surrounded by them for centuries, we rarely take them to heart.
8 Steps to Winning Friends, Influencing People, and Getting Any Damn Thing You Want
Sooner or later every leader realizes that most of the people he needs to be successful don’t report to him. Business success as well as personal success relies on ‘persuasion’. Here are the 8 persuasive secrets from the most persuasive person I’ve ever met.
Why Women Are Arbitrary and Capricious
The supposed irrationality of women demonstrates not only an even deeper rationality it is pure genius. How men as well as women use arbitrary and irrational demands to distinguish authentic love from its selfish alternative.
Leadership Secrets from a Navy SEAL
Even in great pain, faced with the test of his life, a Navy SEAL has to have the ability to step outside his own pain, put aside his own fear and ask: How can I help the guy next to me? Scientists constantly caution against “confirmation bias.” Confirmation bias is just a gussied up way of [...]
It’s Not What We Think but How We Think: 3 Leadership Lessons from the IBM Executive School
About a year after we started our company an ice storm shut down the city. Yet despite some hilarious misadventures that were quickly embedded into our corporate mythos, we all made it to work. Three days later I ran into a friend at the gym who worked for the state of North Carolina. Surprised to see him during business hours, he told me that state employees were still off for the ice storm.
“I don’t get it.” I blurted forgetting my manners. “You can’t get to work but you get to the gym?
