Leadership

"Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people." - Brian Tracy.
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Peter Drucker

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

-- Peter Drucker, management consultant and author.
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The four-minute mile

English runner Roger Bannister broke the widely-held assumption that it was impossible for a human to run a mile in under four minutes. He became the first to do this when he ran a mile in 3.594 minutes in Oxford on May 6, 1954. In addition to being a skilled runner, Bannister used his knowledge as a physician to research the mechanical aspects of running and to develop scientific training methods.
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Parkinson's Law

Parkinson's Law states that the amount of work will expand so as to fill the time available for its completion. This cynical observation was articulated in the 1958 book "Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress" by British historian and author C. Northcote Parkinson.
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Vacation days

American workers receive on average about twelve vacation days a year. The typical American worker gives back an average of three vacation days, according to a recent survey by Expedia.com, leaving nearly 421 million vacation days unused. The survey estimates that 31 percent of employees do not take all their vacation days.
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U.S. job cuts

Already reeling from job cuts in the telecom, dot com and software industries, the U.S. economy posted a staggering 248,332 layoffs in the weeks following the 911 tragedy. There were nearly two million job layoffs in the U.S. in 2001, the highest ever recorded for one year. The U.S. economy has been recording annual layoffs of over one million since 2000.
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Chief Learning Officer

The Chief Learning Officer, a relatively new executive level position, is in charge of employee training, education, and learning structures across the enterprise, as well as providing the expertise to ensure everyone has access to the intellectual tools, information and data they need. The primary success factor of the CLO is to translate learning into strategic business capabilities and assets.
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