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“Nothing motivates like success. While academics, consultants and gurus are preoccupied with coming up with great insights and seminal ideas, usually they don't realize that making things happen, achieving operational excellence, moving the organization from uncertainty to clarity, from red ink to black, is what really creates hope for a better future. Therefore, great leadership always involves great ideas and real actions that reinforce a strong belief in the excellence of the decision makers and in the viability of the organization itself.”

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Judith M Bardwick
Judith M Bardwick

Judith M Bardwick is an American writer born in 1933. Her works primarily focus on the relationship between work and personal growth, especially on the theme of women's career development. more

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