from Soundview Executive Book Summaries review of Jack Welch’s best selling book, “Winning”. Written in 2006 and still as relevant today! When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. Without question, there are a variety of ways to be a leader. What Leaders Do: 1. Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every

from Futurpreneur: Futurpreneur Canada has been fueling the entrepreneurial passions of Canada’s young enterprise for nearly two decades. They are the only national, non-profit organization that provides financing, mentoring and support tools to aspiring business owners aged 18-39. Their internationally recognized mentoring program hand matches young entrepreneurs with a business expert from a network of

25% of self-made billionaires were fired from established companies early in their careers.They don’t just generate results. They produce breakthroughs. by John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen- for Strategy + Business Magazine Habits of the Producing Mind: As a rule, large organizations do a poor job of distinguishing between high-profile roles that require a top professional

by Chris Winfield-for inc.com’s Big Ideas: For most of us, the idea of “wasting time” for 15 or 20 % of our day seems pretty unrealistic. But that’s precisely what makes you more productive. In the last 18 months, Chris went from working 60-100 hours a week to much less than 40. He became more

One of Seth’s great, short & sweet blog posts-September 14,2014: “Without a Keyboard” When the masses only connect to the net without a keyboard, who will be left to change the world? It is possible but unlikely that someone will write a great novel on a tablet. You can’t create the spreadsheet that changes an

by David Rock, Josh Davis and Beth Jones-for Strategy + Business Magazine: Neuroscience shows why numbers-based HR management is obsolete. Evidence is mounting that conventional approaches to strategic human capital management are broken. This is particularly true for performance management (PM) systems—the appraisal approaches in which employees (working with their managers) set goals for the