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Karen Dillon

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Leaders Are Often Impatient. Is That a Superpower or a Weakness?

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By Karen Dillon
| Inc. Verified
You want to move fast but it freaks out employees. Should you slow down or should they speed up? By his own admission, 38-year-old serial entrepreneur Yagiz Aksu is impatient. “It’s my number-one enemy,” he told me—so much so that he had the word patience tattooed onto his left arm as a reminder to take a breath and slow down when he is faced with a tricky challenge. Aksu is hardly unique.
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The Right—and Wrong—Way to Prepare Your Kids to Run Your Company

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By Karen Dillon
| Inc. Verified
These are the essential questions business-owner parents must wrestle with as they make succession plans. “Your future boss is about to be born!” my then-boss, an accomplished business owner, declared as he was leaving the office to meet his wife, who was in active labor. That comment stopped me in my tracks at the time. He’d already determined that his unborn son would succeed him as CEO. How had the son already earned the right to be my boss?
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Karen Dillon If you left your business in the hands of your management team for six months, what would happen?

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By Karen Dillon
| Magzter Inc. Verified
In my mid-40s, arguably at the peak of my career as editor of Harvard Business Review, I made a decision that shocked many of my colleagues and peers. I left my job and spent the next two years on sabbatical. My family and I relocated to London, a change of place and perspective that had a profound impact on the next phase of my life and work. Karen Dillon is a former editor of Harvard Business Review and a New York Times best-selling author.
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