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The Importance Of Embracing Sweaty-Palmed Conversations

YoungUpstarts

And, if we’re in leadership positions and part of a leadership team, engaging in conflict courageously and effectively is not only important for the performance of our team, it also has a critical impact on the culture of the organization.

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How Glenn Beck Won the Audience Over at the Upfront Summit

Both Sides of the Table

On typecasting the worst of our respective parties as the ones who wreak havoc, in Milo Yiannopoulos vs. Occupy Oakland … “There’s no good guys here. I go to Medium and write something that is very detailed — all they read is the headline and then bash me for what they THINK I said or what they think I DIDN’T say!”

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?Vinny Paz’s Comeback And Overpreparedness: A Lesson For Leaders

YoungUpstarts

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era. In other words, it really is all in the mind. He is currently director of pitching development with the Baltimore Orioles.

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?Vinny Pazienzo’s Comeback And Overpreparedness: A Lesson For Leaders

YoungUpstarts

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era. In other words, it really is all in the mind. He is currently director of pitching development with the Baltimore Orioles.

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?Vinnie Pazienzo’s Comeback And Overpreparedness: A Lesson For Leaders

YoungUpstarts

Rick Peterson has coached some of baseball’s best pitchers in the past twenty years, including Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers, and was the Oakland Athletic’s pitching coach during the famed Moneyball era. In other words, it really is all in the mind. He is currently director of pitching development with the Baltimore Orioles.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. Eric Ries : That's been a real theme of these conversations about leadership in a time of crisis, that so many of the things that you are called on to do in a crisis, you should have been doing all along.