MishTalk

JUNE 21, 2014

It’s just been really sad to see, especially when I saw firsthand what a stable and flourishing Middle East could actually look like. If I were advising the president today, I would recommend we go back in there and hunt down these terrorists. They could have them. I mean, we just don’t know. Anyway, listen up guys.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

I was 11 years old, and my mom and I had just arrived from Guyana. Later we learned that the machine was called an escalator. At that moment, looking up from the bottom of the escalator, the idea that I would one day run a technology company seemed unfathomable. My mother was a teacher. I believe the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2017

” “Back in ’86, when my first daughter was born, I learned to completely check out on evenings and weekends.” ” Most working parents look to their networks of mentors, coworkers, and professional contacts for advice on balancing the competing demands of work and home.

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Resources Travel Meeting Report 53

Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

But it’s only as I look back that I realize I wouldn’t be in my current role without it. I wouldn’t have been able to get through the difficulties I’ve been through if I had not had someone who cared and expected that much early in my career.” At the time, I felt it was unfair.

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Culture Education Interviews Operations 53

Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Shame and Guilt are not the same thing… Back in the day, my buddy Gerry Leigh was an Alterboy. Plus time off from classes to attend Mass – coupled with a very slow walk back to school. Standing at the back of a very full church, somewhat bored, he decided to have a quick scan of his phone. Who wasn’t?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But one person had given him the lowest ratings possible, and from the written remarks, Lance could tell that it was Ahmed Lund, Barker’s head of sales. One read: “I’ve never worked with a bigger control freak in my life.” You can see from the feedback that Ahmed isn’t a saint, either. Lance sighed.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

Almost a year ago, our family upended itself and moved from Boston, our h ome of nearly 15 years, to central Virginia so my husband could accept a position at Southern Virginia University , an up-and-coming liberal arts university. And so my husband paused his career to become a stay-at-home dad. It’s a small club.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

At some point, we all confront a stressful life event or personal crisis that threatens to distract us from work. Or are there people in my unit who can be helpful? You might say: “Right now, it helps my sanity to stay focused on work. It would free up my mind to focus on what I need to do at home.”

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Case Study Case Studies Travel Study 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

“I can react strongly to meds, so I was worried switching would shift my mood and wanted her to know why. We’re hesitant to ask for what we need — flex time, or a day working from home — until we experience a major life event, like a new baby or the illness of a parent. ” Her boss was supportive.

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Education Talent Management Meeting 53

Peter Stark

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Every organizational leader can take a few lessons on building a high-performance team from the sport of mountain climbing; where they realize teamwork can mean the difference between life and death. On May 26, 2006, Lincoln Hall, an Australian mountaineer who had reportedly died the day before on his way down from the summit of Mt.

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Leadership Survey Sports Report 31

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Do you publicly call your mother “mom,” or your father “dad”? “When a family member gets fired, they feel they’ve been fired from what they were born to be.” You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like. What the Experts Say.

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Real Estate Case Study Case Studies Development 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

Or the emotionally distant father who never praised you? My work with top executives has shown that deep-seated, sometimes irrational fears can skew their decisions and their ability to execute company strategy. Transference can occur when someone subconsciously redirects feelings from childhood onto a person later in life.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

Is it about learning how to run more effective team meetings? One source of insight into what these fundamentals might look like is the work of an author whose work has never been out of print for over 400 years: William Shakespeare. ” or “I have my way of doing things, and some people like it and some people don’t.”

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Development Fashion Leadership Culture 28

Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International , and Billie Alban, President of Alban & Williams, Ltd. What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? We would not still be here as a species if learning had not taken place at crucial points in our development.

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Development Organizational Development Consulting Leadership 77

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

For most of my adult life I read maybe five books a year — if I was lucky. I’ve never felt more creatively alive in all areas of my life. I’ve never felt more creatively alive in all areas of my life. I feel more interesting, I feel like a better father, and my writing output has dramatically increased.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

AUGUST 27, 2015

The winter of 2014 was a defining moment in my life. Within a matter of a few weeks, my father unexpectedly passed away while I faced a life-threatening medical emergency resulting in the premature delivery of my daughter. My sense of invincibility was lost and my life had a renewed sense of purpose.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International , with Billie Alban, President of Alban & Williams, Ltd. What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? Today’s field of Performance Management comes directly from this school of thought.). To Subscribe to a Blog.

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Development Organizational Development Nonprofit Training 58

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

As they entered middle management, most of them learned that being a good leader is more important than being a good do-er. Most survived these types of difficult experiences and, more important, learned from them. They learned to let go of control and instead support people in doing their jobs. Insight Center.

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Emotional Intelligence Ethics Leadership Exercises 28

MishTalk

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Reader John, whose father was a key figure in the Ukrainian Resistance in WWII, and whose sister currently lives in Lviv in Western Ukraine sent the following link that shows what''s really happening. Wording and back-references are so confusing, I am not precisely sure of the current state of affairs. Do they know either? billion UAH.

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Banking Journal Report Government 28

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 15, 2019

I am super excited to interview Jahaan Blake, our latest Consultant Institute grad who has launched an amazing website and has a fantastic business all ready to go to start attracting tons of leads and future clients, but before she moves on to this new phase I wanted to take a pause and learn more about her experience. So, Jahaan, welcome.

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MishTalk

APRIL 11, 2015

My father and uncle both trained at Detroit''s illustrious technical high school. My dad went on to college and became a physiology researcher and professor, my uncle developed a state of the art machine shop making rocket engine parts. I do have a question about free trade and loss of capital. I suspect none at all.

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Engineering Training Training Analysis 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Sutton did that when one of his peers was promoted to department chair, telling him, “You’re my boss now. Even a subtler signal — saying something like, “I’m looking forward to working with you in your new role” — can be useful, Watkins adds. Remember to be patient, too.

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Case Study Case Studies Operations Management 28

Melissa Agnes

MAY 14, 2015

I took a solid three months to prepare for my TEDx speech and, for those of you who may be interested in – or even in the process of – creating your own TED talk, I wanted to share my experience with you here today. I broke up my TEDx talk preparation into four stages: Research. How to deliver a great TEDx talk.

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How To Exercises Conference Course 74

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In my research, recently published in Human Relations , I’ve found that our upbringing can have an enduring influence on our work and career decisions — and that what we subconsciously learn from our parents plays an important role in how we think about and manage work-life balance.

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Case Interview Study Research Interviews 53

Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

” In many ways this is an old question, because it takes us back to the arguments of Nobel Laureates Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson that firms exist to coordinate complex forms of economic activity in an efficient way. Unreasonableness is antithetical to the world of AI.

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Company Efficiency System Financial 36

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But as the energy and excitement from that first event fades, you’re left wondering: Now what? As one of my clients, a VP in a technology firm, told me recently, “Getting the parents’ group launched was easy. Build up from what works. You’ve done everything needed to get this thing up and running.

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Groups How To Resources Finance 38

Leadership Vision Consulting

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

As an Organizational Strengths Consultant, I have the privilege of working with people from all over the world. As part of our Learning Community 360 experience, Rebecca and her Professional Learning Community (PLC) colleagues engaged in a powerful strengths based discovery session. And I mean really mattered.

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Sports Education Conference Film 36

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Managers can spearhead many of them, even without institutional backing. What information can you gather from annual performance reviews or culture-survey data — or simply from informal conversations? Acknowledge and foster peer-to-peer learning. They’re low-intervention and low-drama.

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Resources Advertising Culture Management 28

MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2014

President Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop after death threats from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, administration officials said on Thursday.

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Insurance Insurance Groups Government 72

Confessions of a Consultant

MAY 28, 2017

The call from RTE came at 18:00 on Thursday evening. The Topic: Working from home. Not A New idea: Working from home is hardly a revolutionary new idea. Personal Story: When I started working as a management consultant, we operated from a shared office on Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge. Calvin Klein Boxers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

I love working… A hum begins in my brain, and it grows and it grows and that hum sounds like the open road, and I could drive it forever.” Doing so requires 1) reflecting on your complexity, 2) moving away from zero-sum thinking about who you are, and 3) creating and leveraging connections between your identities.

How To 40

How To Examples Interviews Study 40

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

” Song was a director at Rochat & Schmid, a 100-year-old Swiss maker of luxury timepieces, overseeing Greater China from his base in Shanghai. Look at the customers—they’re eating it up. ” “I’m ready to show my ideas to you and Simon tomorrow,” Pearl said. ” A Good Niche? .

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Case Study Case Studies Study Sales 28

MishTalk

APRIL 8, 2015

However, note the accusations that Rand Paul, unlike his father, has flip-flopped on Iran. In 2007, Paul, then a surrogate for his father’s presidential campaign, told radio host Alex Jones that “ Even our own intelligence community consensus opinion now is that they’re not a threat.” Because I thought Isis would grow stronger.

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The Fearless Marketer

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We ask for referrals from existing clients. Why do we hold back and play small more often than not? When we are afraid, we pull back from life.” – John Lennon. Yes, the only thing that stops us from trying new things, from success, from living our dreams, is fear. We put together a website.

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Marketing Exercises Resources Strategy 86

MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2014

From a Napoleon Letter to Louis Alexandre Berthier in November 1798: " The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. The Senate investigation revealed that the CIA learned most of the valuable intelligence it gathered during this period through other means.

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Report Policies Government Study 77

Management Consulted

JUNE 1, 2015

This month’s Transparency Series article, How I Started My First Consulting Business: Confessions of a Bain Consultant, is all about Jenny Rae’s renegade life and her first business that wasn’t a souped-up lemonade stand. Sure, I’d just returned from an around-the-world trip – and the U.S. and in George W. I played it cool.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Kerry looks like a complete fool (as well as an Obama tool) to make the comparison he did. Interviews with people in Damascus and Ghouta, a suburb of the Syrian capital, where the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders said at least 355 people had died last week from what it believed to be a neurotoxic agent, appear to indicate as much.

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