Leadership
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Job rotation builds your skills
The best preparation for senior leadership roles is broad-based experience. Regardless of the strength of your skills, your growth potential…
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General Motors’ recalls reflect a defective culture
General Motors is currently recalling more vehicles than it sold in the last eight years. The number of vehicles recalled…
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Network your way to success
Networking builds business knowledge and enduring friendships. I’ve been retired for a half dozen years and still have strong ties…
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Let’s all get along: courting the competition
Business people often view competitors as the enemy. That means leaders have little or no contact with other leaders. Let’s…
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Tennessee Voices: Charters must reflect high standards
During my nearly 30-year career as an executive with Tractor Supply Co., our business responded to opportunity and demand by…
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Professionals Keep it Clean
Vulgarity doesn’t belong in business. I realized this a few years back at a corporate meeting when a feisty young…
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Take Charge of Your Career
If you let random events develop your career it might be just that - an unsteady path. Or you can…
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To mentor and to be mentored
Several powerful mentors have helped me to grow and learn during my career. My dad was a business executive who…
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Start leading when you are young
Many of the best managers I know entered the world of leadership at a relatively young age. Becoming a leader…
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Trust your team, and get out of the way
The most effective business leaders amass the right people, set clear direction and then empower a team to get the…
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