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Do you know your most important number?

Numbers make or break you. Unfortunately, most teams focus on too many numbers or the wrong numbers or maybe no numbers at all! Author Lee Benson knows numbers. He grew...
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Undaunted. Overcoming Doubts & Doubters – with Kara Goldin

Kara Goldin is the Founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. Her book (Undaunted) has been endorsed...
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Start-ups in Ireland – Day 2

Last day working with the start-ups here in Ireland, and all the student group presented their final findings today.  I visited with two of the five students teams, and the first...
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Entrepreneurial Encore

A year and a half ago, I was at lunch with two people I have immense respect for - past guest lecturers in the class I teach on leadership at...
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Like Peas and Carrots – Entrepreneurship and Gratitude

I am in the process of launching a new venture with some terrific partners.  I say I am in the process, because we aren't having a seminal event to launch. ...
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Leadership & Entrepreneurship in Ireland – Course Wrap-up

I was quite fortunate to have had a great class again this year.  The students were committed, professional, engaged, punctual, and represented the university, the state and our country extraordinarily...
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Leadership & Entrepreneurship in Ireland – Day Fifteen

We toured The Dail today, and met with Deputy Bernard Durkan, a TD For Kildare North.  He has quite the gift for a good historical story that relates to current...
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Leadership & Entrepreneurship in Ireland – Day Fourteen

Wow - where to start?! We showed up in Northern Ireland's Technology, Science & Innovation Community blog yesterday! We attended an excellent event on Cloud Computing with over 200 business...
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Leadership & Entrepreneurship in Ireland – Day Twelve

The Belfast Team presented their final analysis and recommendations to the Maildistiller CEO today regarding a channel strategy, and received excellent feedback!  Now we need to learn the following from...
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Leadership & Entrepreneurship in Ireland – Day Eleven

The teams are back to work today, and we received terrific feedback from the Wavebob CEO on the work of the Dublin Team!  I will be with the Belfast Team...
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