Weekly Hotlist: How I Built a $2 Billion Company by Thinking Small

 

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September 12, 2016 How I Built a $2 Billion Company by Thinking Small By Jeff Rodman Small innovations, small designs, small habits.

Leadership Successful Leaders Know What Made Them Who They Are by Bernie Swain Insights from Condoleezza Rice, Terry Bradshaw, and Tom Brokaw. Presentations Good Presentations Need to Make People Uncomfortable by Josh Bersin Being persuasive starts with cognitive dissonance. Stress Managing the Hidden Stress of Emotional Labor by Susan David Keeping your game face on is exhausting. Business writing Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company's Productivity by Josh Bernoff It wastes everyone's time. Managing yourself When to Stay Inside Your Comfort Zone by Andy Molinsky Sometimes stretching your skill set isn't worth it. Leadership & Managing people Why Leadership Training Fails—and What to Do About It by Michael Beer, Magnus Finnström, Derek Schrader Companies spend billions on programs that don't pay off. Here's how to fix that. Economics Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year by Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini Here's the math. Emerging markets How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets by Jonathan Cedar The story of the HomeStove.

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