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Malala Yousafzai coming to Toronto on April 13th

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Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Prize Laureate and International bestselling author will headline The Art of Leadership for Women conference in Toronto on April 13th. At age 15, while returning home on the school bus, Malala...

This I Know: If They Feel, They Believe

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When you create a message with emotional content, it attracts people. Leadership consultant Edwin H. Friedman puts an even finer point on it, saying, âœPeople can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they...

How Forward Thinking Leaders make Productivity Metrics Work

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As the business landscape in Canada continues to become increasingly competitive, organizations are looking to better understand productivity and how it impacts their bottom line. As Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, in...

Malala's Magic Pencil - Malala Yousafzai

Book

Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood. "This is a wonderful read for younger students that will also provide...

How to Handle Conflict in Your Team

Article

A few years ago we sat in the kick-off meeting of a cross-functional team of senior people, assembled to tackle a big project for their company. The team was in a circle; the men in blue button-down shirts, the women in...

Connie Dieken

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What's Next for Vice President Joe Biden

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Delawareâs favorite son likes to say, âœMy dad used to have an expression. He said â˜itâs a lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what heâs about to do and thinks it still matters.â...

Life is Too Short to be Unhappy at Work

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Life really is too short to be unhappy at work. Yet far too many of us arenât even close to being contentâmuch less delightedâwith our work or our workplaces. Instead, we are stressed and exhausted. We canât remember...

Build an A-Team - Whitney Johnson

Book

What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves.   Better morale and higher...

Disrupt Yourself - Whitney Johnson

Book

Thinkers50 Management Thinker of 2015 Whitney Johnson wants you to consider this simple, yet powerful, idea: disruptive companies and ideas upend markets by doing something truly different--they see a need, an empty...

Morten Hansen

Speaker

Morten T. Hansen is a renowned leadership expert and bestselling author, ranked as one of the worldâs most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School and INSEAD...

Ram Charan

Speaker

Ram Charan is a world-renowned business advisor, author and speaker who has spent the past 35 years working with many top companies, CEOs, and boards of our time. In his work with companies including GE, MeadWestvaco,...

The Leadership Rethink

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This observation came from John W. Gardner - former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson - in his book, On Leadership, published in 1990. Caught in the throes of the Cold War,...

Great by Choice - Morten Hansen

Book

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine...

What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast - LAURA VANDERKAM

Book

Three powerful mini e-books about high productivity, now together in paperback   Laura Vanderkam has combined her three popular mini e-books into one comprehensive guide, with a new introduction. It will help...

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban - MALALA YOUSAFZAI

Book

A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the...

Time Magazine - MALALA YOUSAFZAI

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He Named Me Malala - MALALA YOUSAFZAI

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After the Taliban tries to kill her for speaking out on behalf of girls' education, Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai emerges as a leading advocate for children's rights and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize...

Malala Yousafzai

Speaker

Malala Yousafzai is co-founder and board member of Malala Fund. Malala began her campaign for education at age 11 when she anonymously blogged for the BBC about life under the Taliban in Pakistanâs Swat Valley. ...

Drop the Ball - Tiffany Dufu

Book

A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go. ...