Leadership Advice from a Futurist - A Reading

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Leadership is hard.  So for all the leaders and want-to-be leaders out there, here is some advice that I hope you will find useful.




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***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

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