Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Celebrate Women Leaders With Dr. Alvin

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Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Exploring Careers in International Relations With Dr. Alvin

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Real Talk With Dr. Valencia Campbell: Thanking Your Campaign Supporters With Dr. Alvin

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The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business By Erin Meyer chats with Dr. Alvin

Erin Meyer Click Here To Listen Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together. When you have Americans who precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans who get straight to the point (“your presentation was simply awful”); Latin Americans and Asians who are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians who think the best boss is just one of the crowd—the result [...]

By |August 4th, 2014|Business, Leadership|Comments Off on The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business By Erin Meyer chats with Dr. Alvin

The Power of Positive Confrontation: The Skills You Need To Handle Conflicts At Work, At Home, Online, And In Life By Barbara Pachter chats with Dr. Alvin

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The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens By Sean Covey chats with Dr. Alvin

Sean Covey Click Here To Listen With more than five million copies in print all around the world, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is the ultimate teenage success guide—now updated for the digital age. Imagine you had a roadmap—a step-by-step guide to help you get from where you are now, to where you want to be in the future. Your goals, your dreams, your plans…they are all within reach. You just need the tools to help you get there.

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The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor By Jonathan Rose chats with Dr. Alvin

Jonathan Rose Click Here To Listen This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill’s careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill’s personal, carefully composed grand story and on the decisions he made throughout his political life.

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The Risk-Driven Business Model: Four Questions That Will Define Your Company

Karan Girotra Click Here To Listen   Professors at the international graduate business school INSEAD, Girotra and Netessine identify two new types of risk created by an organization’s business model: information risk, which requires decision making without sufficient information; and incentive-alignment risk, which leads to actions that clash with the interests of a value chain. The authors stress that being mindful of these risks and making small modifications to an existing business model can create significant competitive differences. To that end, they present the four W’s for designing better business models, which examine what decisions are made, when they are made, who makes them, and why they are made. Girotra and Netessine also explore the [...]

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First Team Dad: Your Playbook For A Winning Family By J. Drew Pittman chats with Dr. Alvin

J Drew Pittman Click Here To Listen Competitive sports are filled with lessons about motivation, perseverance, hard work, and collaboration—and these lessons are surprisingly transferable to everyday life. Yet few men apply these principles to the most important arena they'll ever play in: the home. A man doesn't need to be a professional athlete to learn and use these lessons. The "game changers" Drew Pittman shares can improve family life and help every man create a winning team. Simple and practical insights including: Constructing a solid game plane Building a culture of accountability Encouraging creativity Harnessing the power of encouragement And many more

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