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Leadership Matters: Values and Dysfunctional Dispositions
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| This essay summarizes our findings regarding the causes of managerial failure, and offers some suggestions about how to minimize the problem. We can sort the causes into two large categories which concern values and dysfunctional dispositions. |
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Marketing Genius Author Harry Beckwith Interviewed
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| "I love all of your work Harry!" Harry Beckwith, author of "Selling The Invisible", "The Invisible Touch", and the forthcoming book, "What Clients Love: A Field Guide To Growing Your Business" was a joy to interview because he's extremely rich in character and wisdom. |
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Penney-Wise: The J.C. Penney Chain Explodes
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| After being forced to close down his first solo venture, Penney went to Longmont, Colorado to work for Thomas Callahan and Guy Johnson, two men who would forever change his life. Callahan and Johnson owned a chain of dry goods stores in Colorado and Wyoming called the Golden Rule stores. Impressed with his work ethic, when Callahan and Johnson were drawing up plans to open a new store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, Penney was their first choice to head it up. He was made a third partner in the store and sent to the town to oversee the store’s operations. |
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The Billion-Dollar Author: Harry Potter’s J. K. Rowling Is Born
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| “I was very low and I had to achieve something,” recalls Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. “Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.” |
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Lesson #1: Slay the Dragons Standing In Your Way
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| Today, there are hundreds of millions of Harry Potter books in print around the world. Each book in Rowling’s series has also been on The New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. But when Rowling first began to seriously pursue her writing career, the story was a much different one than that. |
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Lesson #3: Every Spare Second Counts For Success
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| “Where the idea for Harry Potter actually came from, I really couldn’t tell you,” says Rowling. “I was traveling on a train between Manchester and London and it just popped into my head. I spent four hours thinking about what Hogwarts would be like – the most interesting train journey I've ever taken. By the time I got off at King's Cross, many of the characters in the books had already been invented.” |
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The Secrets to being wealthy
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| The most effective pathway to achieving wealth is by owning your own business. In the book "The Next Great Bubble Boom" by Harry S. Dent he tells us that,
“The best single way to build wealth is to own your own business, especially one that can be systematically expanded or sold.”
So what does it mean to own your own business? |
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Act on the Present
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| In tough times Harry needed to focus on being present -not lamenting the past |
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Book Review: Selling The Invisible
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| Selling The Invisible is packed with tips and insights on how to market your business services. Harry Beckwith claims that most marketing advice is based on a product marketing model, most of which doesn’t apply to service businesses.
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Five Steps to Build a Personal Brand Like Harry Houdini
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| Harry Houdini died in 1926. Yet he is still remembered as the greatest escape artist of all time. Even David Copperfield doesn't come close in terms of brand and name recognition. That is the power of personal branding. Build a solid personal brand and it catapults you to success. |
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The Power of Recognition, Appreciation, and Celebration
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| Arden planted a 50-acre field of wheat that was now golden brown and very full for harvest. It was a sight to touch the heart of any farmer. Uncle Harry came to visit. Arden proudly took him out to look at the field of wheat. Harry looked around, put his hand over his eyes to peer into the distance, and asked "Is that a stone on the hill?" pointing to a boulder too large to move in the middle of the field. He said nothing about the field of wheat. Arden was crushed by his lack of enthusiasm. |
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