Archive for January, 2018

Leadership Lessons from Ukraine’s War

In a recent article in the on-line publication, Knowledge at Wharton, the author suggests that businesses can learn leadership lessons from the four-year Ukrainian War with Russia.  Ukraine was left with the remnants of the Russian Army, and finding itself in a conflict with a formidable foe, had to transform its army with new leadership styles and models.

This model encompasses not just the leadership competencies of skills in strategy, managing people, and running an organization, among others.  This model  also ...

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Achieving Balance, Peace and Happiness

 

In a university commencement address many years ago, Brian Dyson, CE of Coca Cola Enterprises, spoke of the relation of work to one’s other commitments:

“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the ...

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