News & Events     Why join TEC?       TEC Works!       About Me                    Vol. 2, No. 4    April  2005

Welcome to the March edition of the Seattle TEC Leadership eNotes, a monthly newsletter dedicated to providing valuable business and personal insights to those I have encountered in my TEC journey and who have expressed interest in TEC.

The theme of this month’s edition of Leadership eNotes is around risks and decision making.  It includes articles from the TEC library about why CEOs fail and about a Book Review of the book “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.”

Have a great month!    

Sam

Dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and enhancing the lives of company leaders

TEC Group Events
(Event Details)

CEO Group #189 Meeting
- Date:  April 19
- Location:  Bellevue

Key Executive #903 Meeting
- Date:  April 20
- Location:  Redmond

Nominees Information Meetings*
- Date:  April 21
- Location: WAC, Seattle

CEO Group #189 Meeting
- Date:  May 17
- Location:  Bellevue

Key Executive #903 Meeting
- Date:  Ma 18
- Location:  Seattle, WA
 

*Choice of breakfast or lunch

Top Story
Why CEOs fail
Successful people fail more often because they take more risks, says TEC Chair Glenn Waring. And smart CEOs learn from their failures. Waring lays out nine key lessons.
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Book review
"Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking"
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell's new book explores the concept of "thin-slicing" which explains how we sometimes make lightning-fast decisions based on very little information. Understanding this kind of decision making can inform many scenarios, such as how to package products, interview job applicants -- and avoid making snap decisions that are dead wrong
Read more.

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Sam Pederson, TEC Chair     2727 Fairview Ave. E Ste 8, Seattle, WA 98102  206-709-1463    Sam@SeattleTEC.com