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Author Archives: Nilofer Merchant

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42 Rules No one Told You.

May 6, 2011June 22, 2011

I’ve been wanting to find a way to share with you books worth reading. Finally, I’ve settled on doing an interview. I’ve asked Pam Fox Rollin, a coach and leadership …

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It’s Not Bragging if You Back It Up

May 4, 2011June 21, 2011

If Sunday’s night news taught us nothing else, it was a reminder of how you behave when you have a success is as important as how you behave when you’re …

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We Can’t Agree to Disagree

May 2, 2011July 18, 2011

If [fill in the person] thinks I’ve bought in, they’re crazy.” “Even if [fill in the group] doesn’t believe in our current vision, they’ll believe when they see it.” “I …

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Want It? Do Your Homework.

April 27, 2011August 24, 2011

A CEO of a software company reaches out to me recently, and asks me to take a 20-minute meeting to review his strategy/execution software because it was a match to …

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The Snot Factory Story

April 25, 2011December 1, 2019

People say that their faith is tested during tough times of job loss or divorce. But, I’m not so sure I had much faith to test. You likely know my …

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Defying Categorization

April 21, 2011July 15, 2011

People often ask me the question, should I do have two twitter addresses — one for business, one for personal? And authors I know that are experts on innovation then …

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Being Imperfectly Ourselves

April 20, 2011July 17, 2011

I sometimes wish I was a Harvard graduate, that I was a 4.0 type student, that I could still do a mean regression analysis, that I had been a CEO …

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Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time

March 22, 2011December 1, 2019

Trust, fights, and child care. When I’m advising start-up teams nowadays, I ask a lot of questions around those three areas. Which makes it sounds more like a marriage counselor’s …

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Rejecting New Ideas

March 22, 2011July 17, 2011

All innovation starts with ideas. Sure, we talk about innovation as disruptive, or global, or related to market moves, and certainly spread over social media but the universal element of …

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