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What’s one piece of career advice you wish you had learned sooner?

Let's Grow Leaders

Career advice you wish you had learned sooner. On this week’s episode of Asking for a Friend, I interviewed Kathryn Heath and Brenda Wensil , authors of I Wish I’d Known This , about the career advice they have after years of professional coaching. . . Career Advice: Have a posse and know your personal brand.

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Have More Impact and Influence at Work? Video with Liz Wiseman

Let's Grow Leaders

Liz Wiseman’s book is based on research conducted with a variety of companies including Adobe, LinkedIn, SAP, to determine what behaviors affect someone’s influence at work. 29:24 Being an impact player and increasing your influence at work also helps you accelerate your career. They don’t engage in drama.

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Leadership Humility: How Can I Be Driven and Humble? (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

Who gave me a chance early on in my career? I also appreciated Amer’s insights from page 97 of his book, Humbitious. And once you get in the habit of asking, you will continue to receive feedback from others throughout your career becuase people will come to perceive you as open and willing to change. Who mentored me?

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Courage at Work: How to Be More Courageous (and Why it Matters Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

1:24 Jim shares about his book and how it’s important not to only know and have the tools for effective leadership, but how at work to use them. 20:44 What’s a good way to not be a yes person and be able to advance your career when the leadership appears to not value that sort of courage? The Nature of Workplace Courage.

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How To Build Great Work Relationships

Eric Jacobson

Today brings a new book I wish was published back when I was early in my career. It’s one of four books in the new Harvard Business Review ( HBR ) Work Smart Series. The book includes adapted content from 20 articles that previously appeared on HBR.org. “We you learn from best. you learn from best.

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First Look: Leadership Books for May 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2021. Between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon’s cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos’s ownership of The Washington Post, it’s impossible to go a day without encountering its impact. And a phone or video call is worth a thousand emails.

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Early Career Success Playbook

Eric Jacobson

They are two of the most populous generations on earth, and they’re going to have to navigate a work world full of unprecedented challenges,” explains Mark Zides , author of the book, The #PACE Process For Early Career Success. If you focus on developing these skills, they will not only lead to success in your career, but in life.

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