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Fuel Your Career: 17 Critical Skills When You’re a Young Leader Hungry for Success

Let's Grow Leaders

There are several areas of your leadership and work where you can invest to give yourself the best chance at that bigger responsibility: your knowledge and wisdom, the results you achieve now, relationships you build, and opportunities to speak up. Once again, you’re honing the same leadership skills you’ll at higher levels.

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Hiring And The Peter Principle: Square Pegs Really Don’t Fit Into Round Holes

Terry Starbucker

Many (many) years ago at the beginning of my management career, my new boss asked (no, ordered) me to read the book “ The Peter Principle ”, by Laurence J. It was enlightening to read more about the famous quote from the book: “ Everyone rises to their level of incompetence ”. I made them anyway, and several times to boot.

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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. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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Making True Leadership Shine

Persuasive Powerhouse

Rick has now published a fiction book called Radiance. I asked him to write another guest post tying in the book with the subject of leadership. You can purchase a copy of his book at the usual places online - please do. But those are behaviors borne from his experiences, not traits of his career.

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The Complete Collection: 25 Timeless Leadership Lessons That Just Plain Work

Terry Starbucker

It’s the final installment of my five-week series outlining my 25 timeless (and time tested) leadership lessons that just plain work. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. About 17 years ago, someone advised me I needed to be more “statesmanlike” in my leadership approach.

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Thought-full Thursday: Extraordinary Leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.&# ~Uta Hagen What does “regular” mean in the context of your leadership role? Where might you be too regular in your leadership role? Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.

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Developing Positive Leadership Habits

Persuasive Powerhouse

Intentionally practice these new habits daily until they are automatic and watch your leadership effectiveness increase. Developing Positive Leadership Habits (aspire-cs.com) [.] Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services.