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Three Principles of Leadership — Graham Weaver

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I recently delivered a keynote speech at the 10th Annual Booth-Kellogg Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, hosted by the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Below is a summary of the message I shared, and you can watch the session here. There was also a Q&A session after the speech that you can watch here. On a January night more than 20 years ago, I was in a Motel 6 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, wide awake at 3 a.m. I was 29 years old, and I hadn’t slept well for weeks. I was anxious because a label-printing company I’d bought a few years earlier had been teetering on the edge of going out of business following the recession of 2001. I’d found a buyer who could keep the business afloat, but we had to lay off about 25% of the workforce. I was due to deliver that news in a few hours. I was terrified, but I had no idea that all my worries paled in comparison

Three Principles Of Leadership Leadership Self Discovery Dec 14 Written By Graham Weaver I recently delivered a keynote speech at the 10th Annual Booth-Kellogg Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, hosted by the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Below is a summary of the message I shared, and you can watch the session here . There was also a Q&A session after the speech that you can watch here . The Layoff That Changed My Career On a January night more than

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