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The grass is always greener on the other side of the job. Or is it?

Strategy Driven

Here’s your self “why” test: Belief system failing in product – you don’t think your product is really better than the competition’s. Belief system failing in company – you’ve lost faith in the company’s ability to perform. How will a new job get you closer to your real career goals? Leave ethically.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. To speak "your truth" is perceived to be a potentially career limiting, if not ending move. How sad is this?

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

6) Insights, Beliefs, Systems of Thought. (7) Training, professional enrichment, membership in associations and constructive business interaction are vital for career longevity and economic independence. This step is detailed in my monograph, "7 Layers of Wisdom": (1) Glimmer of An Idea. (2) 2) Learning Curve. (3) merely begins.

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Relational Leadership and Employee Retention – A Match, part 2.

Strategy Driven

This book will explore how our institutional leaders can make claim once again to ethical, fair, and purposeful practices that underscore the value of human beings as the linchpins of our society. Leaders sometimes forget that new hires are a reflection of the belief systems they established.

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Win the Pitch: Tips from Mastercard's "Priceless" Pitchman

Harvard Business Review

As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Ericksson , my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living. Values are about people viewing the world entirely through the lens of their belief systems. From the moment the very first television commercial appeared ( You remember it, right?

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A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A.

Terry Starbucker

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. Informal power results from their core belief system. Is “ethical leadership” an oxymoron?

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How to Have a Year that Matters

Harvard Business Review

If you're going to live a life that matters, you need an ethical compass: a belief system with a true north that points toward values that are in some sense enduringly, meaningfully good. And so respect is earned — and love given — not just to those who pander, but those who matter. Where's your true north?

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