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The Leadership Brief

A column by Mike Mears, who is a leadership theoretician, founder of the CIA Leadership Academy, retired Chief Human Capital Officer of the CIA, and author of Certainty: How Great Bosses Change Minds and Drive Innovation.
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Why Do We Disagree?

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How to Kill Creativity