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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. The post The Rise In Portfolio Careers first appeared on The Horizons Tracker. “Alternative workers, who accounted for 15.7%

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Google's Project Oxygen

Coaching Tip

But the key question is: Will Project Oxygen help a grown-up Google get its start-up mojo back? What employees valued most were even-keeled bosses who made time for one-on-one meetings, who helped people puzzle through problems by asking questions, not dictating answers, and who took an interest in employees’ lives and careers.

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The Magical Career Fairy Will Help You

Persuasive Powerhouse

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. And the career fairy won’t just tap you and make it all happen.

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Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. While there are arguments to both sides of the early career versus experienced CEOs, when considering the less fully developed prefrontal cortexes of younger CEOs, we assert the following trait comparison. People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.”

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Developing The CEO Within You.

Rich Gee Group

Some are: Financial – This is all-important - I can’t tell you how many executives I would watch sit in meeting and clearly see they had no idea what was in front of them on our financial projections. Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. Know this area cold. Where are the dependencies? Smile or Die!

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Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives?

QAspire

Whether measuring a project or a business, here are a five steps to map your metrics with your business objectives: Know your goals : Identify what are your strategic, tactical and operational goals. Reducing overrun on your project can have direct impact on your bottom lines. A lot of business leaders. You get the point.