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Team Leadership Interview with Businessman Adventurer

My fascinating interview with businessman, round-the-world yacht racer, and adventurer Simon Walker is ready for you to listen. In an earlier post I wrote about Simon’s celebrity with Fast Company and other media.

Our interview is an hour long. Topics include:

How Simon started sailing
How Simon built a round-the-world racing crew
The difference leadership and teamwork makes
Which is [...]

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Your Friday AM mail delivered on Saturday?

If you are wondering why you received an email w-a-a-y late inviting you to my Noon Friday Ask Christopher Avery show live…
My service provider had a major hiccup I learned about a few hours after “launching” the email. When it had not landed after a few hours I called and learned all broadcasts, including the [...]

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Live Q&A tomorrow about how to build any team any time

You’ve been asking a bunch of excellent questions about the upcoming session of Knowledge Team Leadership (October 21-22, 2008 in Boulder CO). So I’m going to do at least one live call-in Q&A preview talk show. I’ll address all the questions and spill the beans about what I’ve learned in 20 years of studying team [...]

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From Shame to Responsibility—How a CIO Finds Freedom

Last week in Mexico a CIO courageously told me and the roomful of people I had just introduced to Responsibility Redefined™ that my presentation showed him the way to freedom from his shame. Out of respect, I won’t tell you which presentation in which city (I addressed four groups in three days), but here’s his [...]

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Mexico’s Executive Leaders Study Responsibility Redefined™

Here’s a short video of executive leaders in Mexico City studying Responsibility Redefined™ with me this week. The video is only 40 seconds long. At the end you’ll see the Responsibility Process™ poster in Spanish…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sHkPJhZHts[/youtube]
I’ve been invited to Mexico City and Monterrey (a northern industrial city in the state of Nuevo Leon) many times in [...]

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