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Michael C. Hyter is President and CEO of the Executive Leadership Council, a membership organization for Black CEOs, board directors, and senior executives. He was previously Chief Diversity Officer at the global consulting firm Korn Ferry, and he also headed its Washington, DC, office. He is the coauthor of The Power of Inclusion.

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Dale Carnegie was an American author and lecturer who pioneered the self-improvement movement. In addition to developing courses on corporate training, interpersonal skills, and public speaking, he wrote How to Stop Worrying and Start Living and How to Win Friends and Influence People – one of the best-selling books of all time.

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Mastering Leadership (2015) explores the link between personal development and great leadership. It reveals the mindset needed to lead effectively, and explores how insights from classical mythology can help managers find their inner heroic leader.

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Robert J. Anderson is the Founder and Chief Development Officer of The Leadership Circle, a leadership-development organization. He is also the creator of The Leadership Circle Profile, an integrated leadership-assessment tool that has been used by thousands of businesses globally.

William A. Adams is the CEO of Full Circle Group North America and CEO of The Leadership Circle. Over the last 35 years, Bill has advised executive teams and CEOs around the world, and has helped Fortune 500 corporations and start-ups tackle their business challenges.

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Erica Keswin is a workplace strategist who has consulted for some of the world’s most iconic companies. Her insights have been featured in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company. In 2020, Business Insider named Keswin one of the world’s most innovative coaches.

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Bulletproof Problem Solving (2019) delves into one of the most important yet consistently neglected skills in the modern workplace: problem-solving. With routine jobs declining around the world, more and more employees are being tasked with tackling open-ended challenges. As we’ll see in these blinks, you don’t need an advanced degree in statistical analysis to be a great problem solver – you just need a dash of creativity and the right strategies.

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Robert McLean studied finance before joining New York RAND as an analyst. He later worked on strategic and organizational issues for McKinsey in the United States, Australia, and Asia. McLean also served as the dean and director of the Australian Graduate School of Management. His current focus is social enterprise, philanthropy, and conservation.

Charles R. Conn is a Canadian-American CEO and conservationist. He previously headed up Oxford Sciences Innovation, a venture-capital firm that invests in science and technology businesses. Conn is also the former warden and global CEO of the Rhodes Trust, the organization responsible for administering the Rhodes Scholarship.

©Robert McLean and Charles R. Conn: Bulletproof Problem Solving copyright 2019, John Wiley & Sons Inc. Used by permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc. and shall not be made available to any unauthorized third parties.

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