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Learning Leadership The Truth About Leadership Development

Training Industry

The Apple of Technology’s Eye Steve Jobs, the brain child of the much-loved Apple brand, dropped out of university, realizing that he was spending his parents’ life savings on something he couldn’t see the value in. Like a lotus flower, they kept growing toward the sun, fighting their way through the mud.

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How to Identify Truly Exceptional Talent

CLO Magazine

They share a few traits: Extraordinary ambition: Extraordinary ambition is not just what separates the best from the rest, it drives high profile talent to leave one seemingly satisfying job for another. Ozzie moved from Data General, to IBM/Lotus to Microsoft to the startup Talko — each time for a bigger challenge.

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