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What Leadership Class Did They Take?
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~Thomas Jefferson Great news! The discussion about leadership from my previous blogs, A Chance Meeting at the...
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What Am I Missing Here?
I recently read an article relating to book publishing which stated that for the first time, Amazon Kindle eBook sales surpassed the sales of Amazon printed books. In essence, readers are now buying...
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A Valentine Discovery . . .
Be thankful for the bad things that happen in life, For they open your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before. This has been a very frustrating couple of weeks. The weather is...
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Screwed by Amazon.com?
Ever since Amazon.com began I have been an ardent supporter as a customer. Fast, efficient, limitless titles, easy shopping experience. I purchase all my books through Amazon, and even some non-book...
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Just Published! FASTBREAK: The CEO’s Guide to Strategy Execution
“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else...
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Strategy+Culture: A New LinkedIn Group
About two months or so ago I started a LinkedIn Group, Strategy+Culture. This is a fully managed group, with an independent manager to facilitate discussions and help keep the topics on track....
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FASTBREAK now a Kindle eBook
Announcement: My recent business book: FASTBREAK: The CEO’s Guide to Strategy Execution, is now a Kindle eBook and can be easily downloaded to the iPad or PC (with free Kindle app) or to your Kindle...
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Another Business Lesson from Mother Nature . . .
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. ~Charles Darwin In 1975 I left behind my Ph.D. degree...
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My Thriller Novels Now in Paperback
Perfect for Holiday Reading Historical and Political Thriller Novels by John Childress Now Out in Paperback After over a year in e-book format, all four of John Childress’s thriller novels are now...
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New Business Book Now Available Now in Paperback
LEVERAGE: THE CEO’S GUIDE TO CORPORATE CULTURE JUST PUBLISHED IN PAPERBACK ON AMAZON Few concepts in business contain so many powerful truths, and at the same time so much crap, as corporate culture....
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LEVERAGE Infographic: A New Look at a New Book
Filed under: consulting, corporate culture, John R Childress, leadership, Organization Behavior, strategy execution, the business of business Tagged: Amazon.com, business books, culture assessments,...
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Wrong! 8 Common Assumptions about Culture Change
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~Henry Ford One of my greatest insights about culture change came early in my career from an assignment with AVCO...
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Culture By Design, Culture By the Numbers
In my executive speeches and my recent book, LEVERAGE: The CEO’s Guide to Corporate Culture, I use the case study of Zappos.com, the internet shoe and clothing retailer to illustrate the power of...
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