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Are You a 10? 10 Feb 2012 | 10:16 pm
What does the Statue of Liberty have to do with leadership? If someone were considering transferring into your team, from another department or another organization, what if they asked each member of ...
Accelerate Change 10 Feb 2012 | 01:16 pm
Imagine that you are the mayor of New York City and you wanted to fundamentally change one of the most iconic intersections in the world–Times Square. Broadway is a major thoroughfare that cuts diagon...
Two Vital Questions 9 Feb 2012 | 01:32 pm
There are few essential questions every leader must answer for him or herself in order to be effective. The first one is: what makes people choose to give the very best of themselves? And the second...
Sleep To Learn 8 Feb 2012 | 12:47 pm
New York is called the “city that never sleeps”, and sadly, so it is for many high potential leaders. One of the things that happens when people have their eyes on you is that they keep tossing challe...
TouchPoints 6 Feb 2012 | 02:42 pm
A TouchPoint occurs anytime two or more people get together to get something done. What’s happening in the time we live in is that we need to get more and more work done in shorter and shorter spurts ...
Alpha Time 5 Feb 2012 | 03:39 pm
We live in an interruption age. We have decisions to make and deadlines drive our day. It can be stressful, but also exhilarating. Our brain operates in different frequencies, the fastest of which ...
Mette’s Story 4 Feb 2012 | 02:23 pm
I was raised in a village of 900 people in the northwestern part of Denmark, just a couple of miles from the North Sea. In the center of the village was the coop dairy, the coop feedstore, the communi...
Seize the Moment 4 Feb 2012 | 01:05 pm
Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard collaborate to bring you the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller, TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments. ...
The Ugly Duckling Goes to Work 1 Feb 2012 | 03:12 pm
A few years ago, I wrote The Ugly Duckling Goes to Work as a way to share with people what we could learn as adults from Hans Christian Andersen. One of his best known tales is the story of the ugly d...
