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Small Business Advocate’s Jim Blasingame

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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You can learn a lot from Jim Blasingame, from his expertise in small business and from his many guests on smallbusinessadvocate.com. And I enjoy staying in touch with him. From this morning’s conversation: 1. VISTAGE MEMBER OUTLOOK In Q4 2009, the business owners in our group emerged from their two year siege of battening down [...]

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Nurture vs.Nature: Startling New Findings

Saturday, September 26, 2009

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Is our behavior in the face of challenge determined at birth or by our environment? Are leaders born rather than made? My obsession with what makes some ordinary people become extraordinary leaders led to my interviews with dozens of CEOs which Random House published in 2007 and to the Master Class series at Pace. The [...]

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Nurture vs. Nature: Startling New Findings

Saturday, September 26, 2009

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Is our behavior in the face of challenge determined at birth or by our environment? Are leaders born rather than made? My obsession with what makes some ordinary people become extraordinary leaders led to my interviews with dozens of CEOs which Random House published in 2007 and to the Master Class series at Pace. The [...]

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Small Business Advocate — A Treasured Resource for Big Companies Too

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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Jim Blasingame of smallbusinesssadvocate.com hosted my presence on his morning radio show yesterday. Though it is not the first time Jim and I have chatted like this, it is a reminder of his value as an advisor to business, keeper of an inventory of written wisdom and node in a network he calls his “brain [...]

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What Made jack welch JACK WELCH

How Ordinary People Become
Extraordinary Leaders

by Stephen H. Baum (Random House)

Most leaders of American companies started out as ordinary people. What prepared them for the top job?

Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?

"Lessons for life about the core leadership traits of character, risk taking decisiveness and the ability to engage and inspire followers."
--Jim Clifton, CEO, The Gallup Organization

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