If the volume of correspondence post-event is any indication, the conversation with our guests Peter Vermeulen and Paul Connolly stimulated fresh thinking among the audience at last week’s Borderless Live. At the top of their chosen professions with global experience in leading Human Resources and Operations, after successful careers in the world’s largest life sciences company, subsequent ‘lives’ at Amazon and in the industrial world, have provided them with exceptional insights that challenged conventional thinking. Download the videoPassword: 5V.1=0T6
Being invited to join the board of a nonprofit can be flattering, expensive, and time-consuming. In addition to mission, you want to understand the direction of retained earnings relative to similar-size companies with a similar mission. The “wearing my hat” technique allows you to respond to issues from multiple and even conflicting perspectives.
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How do you deal with your inner critic? Everyone has one, but the difference between those who are successful and those who are not often connects back to whether or not their inner critic stops them from pursuing their hopes and dreams.
