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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Perhaps the best course of action (and I can hardly believe I'm writing the words) is to line up with everyone else and set some 2011 goals for ourselves. So how can we set goals that won't disappear faster than a politician's promise? Goals must be specific 2. Goals must be written down 3.

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Preparing business students for managerial roles

Coaching Tip

Although business schools have traditionally excelled at teaching "hard skills" like finance and accounting, those skills become less relevant as an employee ascends the corporate ladder and moves away from crunching numbers to overseeing employees, as companies like Google are discovering. Source: The Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2011.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

It provides a step by step navigation and helps me stay on course so I get to where I want to go. Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? It is common this time of year to set goals. How comforting is that?

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5 Important Things to Remember as an Entrepreneur :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Ask the people in your network to keep you in mind or refer you when they come across business opportunity within your specialty; and of course do the same for them. Offer support to others with similar goals of business ownership. Many aspects were discussed that revolved around entrepreneurship and small business ownership.

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Why Ability Doesn't Always Lead to Confidence – The Trouble With.

Women on Business

How often have you found yourself avoiding challenges and playing it safe, sticking to goals you knew would be easy for you to reach? © 2011 Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D., Categories : Guest Posts 3 Comments 1 Sara Kmiecik January 15th, 2011 at 12:47 pm Very interesting post! Skills you believed you would never possess?

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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

Leaders who didn’t have that figured out before 2020 have certainly had a crash course—or crashed and burned. Targets and goals that were adjusted now loom large as year-end approaches. Jossey-Bass; 2011:30. Zig Ziglar is known for saying, “You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.” MANAGE WORK.

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Is Experience Enough? No.

Mike Cardus

Monday, January 17th, 2011 Posted by: mike Is experience enough? We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. All rights reserved.