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What Should You Pay Attention to During This Pandemic?

Lead Change Blog

What you’re concentrating on can make a big difference in your business, career, and health. Case Study: Attention in Manufacturing. When I met James as well as the company’s CEO and CFO over Zoom, I told them that we should admit that COVID-19 seriously interrupted our world and will not disappear anytime soon.

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Leaders Must Put Character At The Center Of Everything They Do

Eric Jacobson

He provides you proven techniques, workshop processes, real-world case studies and examples and insightful observations from business leaders and his own career – which includes 20 years as an executive at IBM and CFO positions at Cisco and Red Hat.

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Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong

Harvard Business Review

He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Nothing happened that first night. Yes, Brad had flirted. Yes, Elizabeth had flirted back.

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Case Study: After a Crisis, Who Should Take the Fall?

Harvard Business Review

The four weeks since hackers had attacked his company had been the most stressful of Jake Santini’s career. Editors’ Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Some of that was true.

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Where Will You Be in Five Years?

Harvard Business Review

Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. In today's work world, careers take numerous twists and turns and the future is often murky. You have to clarify for yourself what you aspire to do with your career before you can communicate it confidently to others.

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How to Write the Dreaded Self-Appraisal

Harvard Business Review

In his view, since study after study has shown that we are horrible judges of our own performance, any self-evaluation should focus exclusively on positives; people should not be self-critics. Smart employees use self-appraisals to lobby for career development opportunities. Case Study #1: Take it seriously and they will too.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO. The two men went way back. ” Henning Weighs In.