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A Culture of Trust

Coaching Tip

"Trust motivates a desire to make an extra effort to reach organizational goals," Zak attests. "A In TRUST FACTOR: The Science of Creating High-Performance Companies , Zak shows that building a culture of trust is essential for any organization that aims to be successful. Those who get weekly feedback are rarely surprised.

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Focusing on Your Life Signature

Coaching Tip

The above self-assessment resources will help you begin to align your innate signature talents and passions in what you do in your career. They are the catalyst for your future success. Cialdini, author of The Psychology of Persuasion (William Morrow, 1993). Your life signature and professional goals are linked.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

Other successful companies build upon social interaction to develop innovative concepts leading to disruptive product and service developments. And since competition is a matter of relations, the company’s ability to structure and control the process of securing productive relationships will determine success in the marketplace.

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The Right (and Wrong) Way to Network

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino and her colleagues have noted , “transactional networking” — i.e., “networking with the goal of advancement” — often makes participants feel so bad about themselves, they feel “dirty.” I learned this the hard way early on in my career.

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Getting Ahead by Leading Across

Harvard Business Review

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. Shortly thereafter, the pace of her career progress began to stall.

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7 Ways to Capture Someone’s Attention

Harvard Business Review

Your long-term success depends on winning the attention of others. And if you can’t capture the attention of clients, how does your business or career survive? Your goal as a manager should be to identify the incentives that most appeal to your employees, colleagues and bosses and to make them more visceral in their minds.