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Help Others Get Better
Posted Jul 19 2010

James McNerney, who is currently CEO of Boeing, has operated with this goal in every company he's worked at: "Help others get better."  That should be the operating philosophy of ever senior executive or leader in business today.  I've often told my clients, "If you don't grow, the business won't grow."...

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Self-control is an exhaustible resource
Posted Jul 9 2010

I've been reading the book Switch: How To Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip and Dan Heath.  It makes a number of great points about our emotional self and rational self.  If you really want to see lasting change you have to appeal to both aspects of someone's personality.  

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