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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

Success is all about getting others to care about what you care about. As a result, Tommy was able to step back and let his team sort out operational problems without his involvement. L EADERS in today’s multinational, matrixed, diverse business world have impact through their ability to influence others.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

You may value the team and company putting time and resources into successful projects, but don’t want to see the company waste money on failing ones. Making sure this project is successful is important to me, and I think it’s critical that the company makes good use of limited resources.

McKinsey 385
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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

EY has a consistently received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) since 2005, demonstrating a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our focus on innovation in talent is what allows EY people to build meaningful careers with impact.

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Rethinking Digital Transformation: An Interview With Kathleen Wilson-Thompson

HR Digest

I am also a huge champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, and have been across the course of my career. What has been the most challenging decision you’ve ever had to take in your career? In my 17 years at Kellogg, I held positions ranging from Legal, to Operations, to Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources.

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Executive Assimilation

Coaching Tip

When newly recruited, the following types of executives experienced the highest failure rates within the first 18 months: senior-level executives (39%), sales executives (30%), marketing executives (25%), and operations executives (23%). Also, two out of every five new CEOs fail in the first 18 months (HBR, January 2005).

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

What do you regret most about your career? But judging from the scores of follow-up questions and the volume of post-lecture emails I received, a talk on career regret would have been the real bull's-eye. Importantly, the effects of bad career decisions and disconfirmed expectancies were felt equally across age groups.

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Life is Luck — Here’s How to Plan a Career Around It

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman has claimed the following as his favorite equation: Success = talent + luck. Great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck. Kahneman’s implication is that the difference between moderate and great success is mostly luck, not skill. The degree to which early success causes subsequent success.

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