HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There are many reasons to think of opting for a second career—dissatisfaction with the present job or career you have; need to earn an extra income; to exercise your creative juices; for more money or you are not ready to retire yet and want an extra shot at the job market. Walt Disney’s first career was as a newspaper editor.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In analyzing how we spend our time, whether personally or professionally, it can be helpful to consider two dimensions: short-term satisfaction and long-term benefit. can help us gauge the degree of short-term satisfaction that we get from any activity. Both have value. lots of achievement, but not much joy.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 13, 2010

Exchanging the negative habits for the positive ones Unlike these task habits, you may have behavioral habits that require your awareness and action in order to help you to become the best leader that you can be. The next step is to actively work to replace those negative behavioral habits with some positive ones.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 12, 2017

Will you spend the afternoon reading a book or playing? A few years into my career, I worked for a boss who asked a whole new style of questions. That boss wanted to know how we were going to achieve both quality and quantity or how we would meet our short-term goals without jeopardizing our long-term position.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They may take the form of health scares, financial hardships, family squabbles, relationship disputes, or career setbacks. Set ambitious, yet realistic, short-term goals as you pursue your long-term efforts to grapple with the crisis. As Charlie Chaplin said, “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.”

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2022

Today, we feature an excerpt from the book, The Public Relations Handbook. This section of the book on how to deal with negative publicity is written by Jonathan Dedmon of T he Dilenschneider Group. And remember that relations with the media need to be viewed as a long-term game. Don’t be argumentative.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This is achieved through powerful ideas, personal expertise, and impeccable integrity rather than through their position or by “pulling rank.” Supercharge your career. They won’t sacrifice a relationship for a mere short-term gain. You don’t win over your constituents because you have an impressive title.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MAY 16, 2023

When you set ambitious goals, it’s exciting, exhilarating, and if you hit your targets, you’ll receive well-deserved positive recognition. The key is to set ambitious, yet realistic , short-term goals as you pursue your long-term interests. Check out Frank’s latest book, The Path to a Meaningful Life.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2023

And if I’m generalizing, one side took the position that infrastructure includes things like roads, bridges, ports, transit systems, the electric grid, and so on. The other position took a broader approach and included items like healthcare, technology, job training, scientific research, and so on in their definition of infrastructure.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Find a strong and well positioned employer brand. He began his career at the U.S. The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? His new book, Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants is a compelling book for leaders thinking about strategy and positioning their companies for what’s next. Let’s start with the short-term mindset.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2016

As we’ve been traveling for our book tour and media interviews, David and I consistently get asked questions we imagine may be on your mind as well. Where the other three manager types tend to focus on short-term goals, managers who win well have a longer time horizon. What initial feedback are you hearing about the book?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

Gallup scientists have determined that there are five universal and interdependent elements of wellbeing that differentiate a thriving life from one spent suffering: Career : liking what you do every day (Tip: Every day, use your strengths.). The Wellbeing Finder can be taken online by using the code provided in the book.)

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Tips to Radiate Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture shared Engage in Change. Marcella considers: “ Engage – travel guide for change adventurers, is a great book for anyone looking at organizational change.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer, is a very important book. It actually builds on the ideas and thinking presented in his classic book written with Bob Sutton, The Knowing Doing Gap over a decade ago. Pfeffer wants to know why, in spite of the thousands of leadership books, blogs and seminars are there so many leadership failures?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 2, 2017

Share what you have in mind in terms of goals for our department, and then have the humility to ask us what’s right, what’s wrong and what’s missing from your thinking. Take time to meet with us and learn about our career aspirations and what support we need to do our best work. That will be best for everyone in the long term. __.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For example, what’s the value of a positive and upbeat person or someone who provides emotional support? In addition, is a career more important than ensuring that your home functions properly? Make sure to focus on both the short and long term, meet people halfway, and do your fair share. Be reasonable. Strike a balance.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Perhaps you’ve heard of the professional growth tool called the Individual Development Plan (or IDP for short). It is completed by the employee (sometimes in collaboration with a supervisor, career coach, or HR representative). Career Goal. A career goal is the next destination you’d like to attain in your career.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Most people at some point in their career will experience a “bad boss”. In fact, for years, I didn’t even know the term leader. I only knew the term boss. I cringe at the term now. The term indicates everything to me that leadership is not supposed to be. I started working nearly full-time at the age of 12.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Fortunately, reading Eduardo Briceño ’s bold and highly applicable book, The Performance Paradox , will help you break free of chronic performance. Question: What inspired you to write your book? I wrote this book to delve deeper and to continue making these ideas and strategies more accessible.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 12, 2021

If you are even a casual reader of this site, you know that I am passionate about reading and books. Though we usually feature non-fiction on this site, I am often found lost in a book of fiction and most often thrillers. It’s one of those books that pulls you in and somehow sticks to your fingers, refusing to let you put it down.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

While it might help in the short-term, the pursuit of approval is a guarantee of long-term failure. In life, but especially in leadership positions, we all face fears. Leadership is not necessarily safe but can be perilous to our career; it involves much more risk than just being a team member. Conquer Your Fears.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Whether you are just starting or seasoned in your career, the 15 minutes you will invest here today will serve as your guide to master the basics of interviews- and hopefully help you land your dream job. The following are some key considerations: Remember to think long-term; it is more important than any skill you possess.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 18, 2016

Why I realize we cannot all be entrepreneurial in the sense that we can’t all start our own companies, I believe we can all be entrepreneurial in terms of how we approach our careers. As you ponder your career options, ask yourself: “Who do I want to be like in 10 years?” This is critical! Learn from the best.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The same can be said for someone with promise, but who’s falling short of their potential. That often happens in their time frame and on their terms. Here are 12 guidelines for introducing change as a positive force in someone’s life: Make yourself available. Even though you want to help, your assistance isn’t always welcomed.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Julie Winkle Giulioni contributed Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Julie shares: “This short post and animated videos offers tangible suggestions for how to shift ownership and responsibility for development where it belongs… with employees.” Try These 2 Things. Connect with Erik on Twitter at @i4cp.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Countless people occupy leadership positions, whether in government, companies, churches, nongovernmental organizations, schools, nonprofit organizations, or elsewhere. The 16 case studies discussed in my book reveal a remarkable variation in the personal qualities of the leaders, all of whom were effective in changing history.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

Fortunately, in my career, I was provided with examples of what this meant, not just from Matt, but from working with a number of strong leaders. While things didn’t always work out in the short-term the way they hoped, in the long-term they were successful. He is the author of the new book, Jesus & Co.:

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In a twenty-year career, I had eighteen different bosses. We’ll talk about people and a positive future. 81% of workers in the top Companies to work for rated their workplace as “Fun” · Fun (short-term “happiness” shocks) is best delivered in short and consistent doses. Guest post from T.J. Do that math, please.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. The politician makes speeches and promises motivated by pride, ego, notoriety, power, position, stature, and personal success.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2020

Bernd asks us to consider: “How you can stay calm and positive within the storm, and how can you engage the hearts and minds of your people in times of crisis?” Steve DiGioia contributed Every Great Leader Has an Experience Book. This builds our ‘experience book’ that’s stored in our memory to reference in the future.”

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 15, 2020

Ryan Gottfredson’s new book, Success Mindsets , tackles these problems by focusing on the leadership mindset. And you certainly had some ‘awakening moments’ in your career especially moving from academia to Gallup that helped you see your own. Then, one day, I was given a book, The Five-Minute Journal. Ryan Gottfredson, PhD.,

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

Dopamine is associated with the pleasure and reward pathways, and the positive emotion that makes us desire what we don’t have and motivates us to go after the things we desire. In their book The Molecule of More , authors Daniel Z. Reward is visceral in terms of excitement. Lieberman, MD, and Michael E.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can find all the info here. Catch up here.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Over the last three years Jossey-Bass has published a mostly revised and updated collection of his rather large body of thoughtful-provoking writing in this series of three books. I believe that [ Reflections on Character and Leadership ] is my twenty-ninth book. This series of books cannot be read quickly.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In my new book, Endless Encores , a veteran CEO named Daphne spends an evening talking with an up-and-coming executive named Paul, helping him come to terms with the potential first failure he could be facing following a huge initial success. Projects are always short. Careers can be short or long.

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