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Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance
by Karen Martin
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
7h
English
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Committing to Clarity
Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Mike Nichols was a film, television, and stage visionary who won an Oscar, a Grammy, four Emmys, nine Tonys, and three BAFTAs. Nichols was known as much for his talent as his unshakable passion, commitment to the work, and love of clarity. Four months before he died in 2014, he spent a few days with fellow theater director and friend Jack O’Brien talking about his career. On clarity and how it feels, he said: “One minute you don’t know, the next minute you suddenly get it. And that as you know is the great thrill, whether it happens in your life, in your work, in your study, in ...
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