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Conduct your OWN performance Review

Career Advancement

Reviewing your past goals. Look at the work performance goal s you set for the period you’re reviewing. Ask yourself how you leveraged your successes, advises Sharon Armstrong in The Essential Performance Review Handbook. Create a visibility plan outlining how you’ll do that. Setting goals. Developing ideas.

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The Value of Vision Series – Daniel Burrus

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Futureview is not the same thing as a goal, plan, ambition, or aspiration. When Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and spoke to a great people about their greater future, he didn’t say, “I have a plan.”. It is not something you hope for or try for. Making the Impossible Possible.

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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Anne Perschel , from Germane Insights, picked Dear CEO: What's Your 400 Year Business Plan? This post begins by considering the 400 year forest management plans that produce trees for making cognac barrels. Randy Conley , Leading with Trust , picked Five Leadership Lessons From the Life of Neil Armstrong.

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When to Give Up on Your Goals

Harvard Business Review

Goal setting can be powerful. But it's equally important to re-evaluate those goals to ensure they're still appropriate. At my gym — the same one I visited with Ben — there's a huge banner with a Lance Armstrong quote: "Pain is temporary. When your goals have adverse consequences. Quitting lasts forever."

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I plan distractions; I do not allow distractions to ruin my plan. The biggest takeaway is nearly everyone has an intentional plan for all seven areas. I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. I set goals and stick with my plan to achieve them.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. What made the typically affable Armstrong snap?

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

There was Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the age of 34, and Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the moon at the age of 38. Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood. Their youth brought a feeling of youthfulness to humanity itself, and gave people the sense that nothing is impossible.

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