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How to Use Optimism to Defeat Adversity

May 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

This post was first published in Forbes. I asked executives, in a series of interviews, about the most difficult professional situations they had faced as leaders. One chief executive discussed the effect of 9/11 on the operation of his airline company. Another told of taking his company into bankruptcy. A former CEO reviewed how his company’s stock price had plunged from a high of $48 dollars to mere pennies in less than a year. Other ... Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Optimism Tagged With: adversity, leadership, optimism

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