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Lead Change like a Slinky®

Lead Change Blog

The course it takes once it begins is entirely unpredictable. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. Adjust course as you listen and learn. Adjust course as you listen and learn. Repeat as necessary.

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Ethnic Minorities Are Paid Less, Even In The Same Firm

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers assessed data from the 1998, 2004, and 2011 editions of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey. While some argue that this gap exists because ethnic minority workers are more likely to work for lower-wage firms, research from UCL shows that the gap persists even within the same firm. Segregated workplaces.

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Work and Life Interview About Connection Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Mike Stallard: It is an unusual career shift. Then, also the deals over the course of my career. Finally, I had a very unusual situation happen where my wife, Katie, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, and ovarian cancer in 2004. I saw, working on Wall Street, that so often mergers didn’t work.

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Soft Skills Are Vital If Low Skilled Workers Are To Thrive

The Horizons Tracker

At a firm level, this is usually translated into higher wages for employees at the most innovative firms, with new research from the London School of Economics showing that over 12 years, from 2004-2016, the typical worker in a non-innovative firm in the U.K. was paid around 20% less than their peers at one of the most innovative firms.

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

In the CEO Afterlife

As a side benefit of this crash course in catch-up, I have learned more than I ever imagined. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career. Your idea can change a company. Take the time to look at other industries. Mine was marketing.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

Being able to effectively support entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs is increasingly important as more and more of us have taken the entrepreneurial career path during the pandemic. A major motivation for these fledgling entrepreneurs was the desire to be their own boss.

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Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn

LDRLB

As a side benefit of this crash course in catch-up, I have learned more than I ever imagined. That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career. Your idea can change a company. Take the time to look at other industries. Mine was marketing.