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Success and Your Brain: 4 Keys to Better Thinking

By chipscholz | Published: August 23, 2011
Success in business has a lot to do with your brain, but not in the way you may think. Contrary to popular belief, high achievement has very little to do with IQ, or your financial resources, knowing the right people or even luck. I see this in many professions. Success comes in different shapes and sizes. [...]
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Leadership Clarity: Are You Clear, Really Clear?

By chipscholz | Published: October 4, 2010
Most managers think they’re clear about what they want, but you’d be surprised how many I know confuse people. Without being really clear in our communications, we leave others to make assumptions and guesses. Leadership needs to be clear if it’s going to be effective. Some of this is because managers make assumptions about what people [...]
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4 Steps to Leadership Clarity

By chipscholz | Published: August 27, 2010
Alan Weber is one of the best business journalists around. As an award-winning editor, author and columnist, he launched Fast Company, the fastest growing, most successful business magazine in history. He is coauthor of three business-related books, including most recently, Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self. It’s full of [...]
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Leadership: More Signal, Less Noise

By chipscholz | Published: August 24, 2010
What’s the right way to think about leadership today? Put another way, what’s the organizational  problem that leadership needs to solve? That’s a great question asked by Alan Weber in his neat little book Rules of Thumb. Weber reminds us  that every year, Fortune magazine published a cover story naming “the ten toughest bosses in America.” [...]
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