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3 Essential Skills to Being a Successful Executive

3 Essential Skills to Being a Successful Executive

Charlie Paparelli
Sep 01, 2017
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I remember sitting in a president’s meeting at Sterling Software. It was 1986 in Dallas, Texas. I was 33 years old and president of the vertical market software divisions.All twelve of us were in a glass conference room. We sat in our high back leather chairs edged up to a beautiful 30-foot oval mahogany table. Sitting at the head of that table was our …

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