Leading a Business & Losing Some Weight: 6 Surprising Similarities

If you can lose weight, you can lead an organization. The weight- loss industry has given us not only a personal self-help model but a business one as well. If you’re one of the millions of folks attending these programs, you have readily transferable leadership skills for today’s marketplace.

Just follow these six simple steps and you too can be attractive, successful and the envy of your corporate colleagues.

CAUTION: This advice is not intended to be taken seriously and may be injurious to your health, both personal and financial. Neither the Surgeon General nor Tom Peters has approved these prescriptions. Please contact a high-priced management consultant before attempting on your own. Common side effects may include nausea when reviewing the company’s executive compensation plan, mild depression in implementing “Best Practice” business solutions and acute drowsiness when attending programs sponsored by the human resources department. A healthy disrespect for authority and the propensity to trust your innate common sense may be dangerously elevated. On rare occasion, patients have been known to cancel their subscriptions to the Harvard Business Review.

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