From Academy Leadership Affiliate Tom Watson
As a leader you will, no doubt, be called upon to chair meetings of varying importance from time to time. No matter the subject, the cultural diversity of attendees, or the management level of participants, you, as the chair of the meeting, must ensure participation from all. It [...]

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From Academy Leadership Affiliate Cor Karaffa
In today’s world, private companies and family run businesses are not going public but instead are being bought by private equity partnerships seeking companies they can streamline and grow with professional management so they can sell them at a premium.
The biggest challenge for a CEO is leading a business that [...]

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From Academy Leadership Affiliate Bob Larkin
In the great book, First Break All the Rules, Buckingham and Coffman state something like … a person joins a company, but quits a boss. Let’s think about that for a moment.
First on a personal basis: how excited where you when you took your first real job? Why? [...]

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From Academy Leadership Affiliate Tom Watson
There are times when it takes moral and ethical courage to go counter to the apparently popular business practice of the day. The late 1980’s and early 1990’s were the “go-go” years of business growth in Asia. Many contracts and business agreements were facilitated by drinking and partying [...]

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From Academy Leadership Affiliate Bob Larkin
Change happens around us all the time. So — how do we look at it as a leader? I suggest that it can be reduced almost to a mathematic equation:
C=ABD>X, where
C= Change will occur, when the combination of
A= Level with dissatisfaction with the present state
B= Level of clarity [...]

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