Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, by Howard Schultz, was never intended to be his memoir, a documentary of corporate history, or a textbook on how to fix broken companies; nevertheless, it contains those elements. Instead, Schultz’s real desire to write a book was to inspire people to pursue their dreams and to have the courage to persevere... Learn more...
Leadership Myth #4 - As the leader, it is my job to have the answers.
These are challenging times for the entire world, but more importantly, these are challenging times for you as a leader. For a number of years, the world was a reasonably predictable place because of the widespread economic growth and, in many cases, unbounded prosperity. That is not to say that change was not a constant challenge to manage, but because the direction of the world’s economy was up, it made leadership somewhat easier.
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