Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They built into a multi-million dollar company before selling it to Sigma Alimentos. A fulfilling career is never about the money, in the end, but about realizing your true passions. Lean shares the ups and downs of his journey in The House that Cheese Built. It is a heartfelt, interesting story. The same is true of relationships.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Former vice president and corporate controller at The Boeing Company, Laurette Koellner , on our responsibility to self-empower and self-deploy: “No one asked Amelia Earhart or Charles Lindbergh to do a solo flight across the Atlantic. Source: Speech, Managing Your Career: The Ultimate Solo Flight.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Expect to Do Some Heavy Lifting by @artpetty How to Facilitate – as Opposed to Dominate – Your Meetings by @suzimcalpine 5 Important Lessons I Learned Growing Up from @wallybock Leaders, Objectivity vs.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A. Calderoni discovered that character is just as vital for companies as it is for individuals.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

T HE RESPONSIBILITIES that fall under a leadership title vary significantly at each company. Closing the gap on leadership skills is the number one priority of 58% of companies , while only 18% feel their leaders are “very effective” at achieving business goals. Everyone wants to move up in their career.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The antidote, I’ve found during my two decades as an accountability speaker and business consultant, is a thoughtful and persistent effort to infuse accountability into every objective, every task, and in every colleague-to-colleague and company-to-customer interaction. What advice can you offer on ways I can move forward in my career?

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

It doesn’t matter what your company peddles. Increasing shareholder value, company market share, or worker productivity just doesn’t jazz the average worker. There is often a vast disconnect between what is important to a company’s executive body and what is important to front-line workers. A Solution in Four Words.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In writing The Grit Factor , Polson made it her mission to connect with an elite pack of tough, impressive female iconoclasts who shared with her their candid stories of combat and career. Game Changer : How to Be 10x in the Talent Economy by Michael Solomon, Rishon Blumberg with Daniel Weizmann.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. The author will inspire readers to examine the effectiveness of their current strategies, using the model that has served him in his distinguished career. Dig deeper. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. It's never an overnight process, but the long-term payoff is immense: to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and your career.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

In the book, she explores the mentorship advice that helped her start a groundbreaking company after studying entrepreneurship and strategic management at MIT and Harvard. You’ll find practical steps you can take to build your own plan for finding the right mentor for you, or for becoming someone else’s trusted advisor.

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Leading Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Of all the business and career memes to gain popularity, few have compromised integrity in business, leadership, and personal success more than the expression “Fake it till you make it.” I had no employees, no clients, and except for the business cards, no evidence of a company, really. What do you do? And then there’s winning.

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2023

. ☙ When asked the secret of his political success, Ford reveals more than he perhaps intends by replying, “I made everyone else’s problems my problems.” ☙ “Ford never doubted the contribution of college sports to his character or career. Teamwork and grueling preparation were educational values in themselves.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Career Opportunities and Employee Satisfaction by @Julie_WG. OpenAI's new #AI platform means companies will need you to move from being a specialist to being a generalist. 10 Reasons Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions by @BrianKDodd. AI Can Now Code: Are You Doomed?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If you look hard enough you’ll see them next to each other in virtually every successful company and successful career. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Optimism and pessimism can coexist. They seem like opposites, but they work together to keep everything in balance.”. Source: The Psychology of Money.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Take a moment to consider how many jobs you’ve had and how many careers you’re yet to embark upon? While companies continue to shimmy and shuffle to attract talent, we continue to search for meaning and challenge.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. The Flexible Method : Prepare To Prosper In The Next Global Crisis by James Burstall James Burstall runs one of the most successful TV production companies in the UK.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You may value the team and company putting time and resources into successful projects, but don’t want to see the company waste money on failing ones. Making sure this project is successful is important to me, and I think it’s critical that the company makes good use of limited resources.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Disruption for disruption's sake isn't a smart strategy when you're seeking ways to accelerate your career and become truly indispensable. Internationally celebrated disruption strategist Shawn Kanungo offers a playbook for individuals who know they need to become bolder to push their careers and companies forward?but

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Myth #1: Build a Billion Dollar Company. I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. So how do billion dollar companies get built? I used to think a valuation was kind of like the stock price of a public company.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Career Management. The book is organized around 10 topics.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

You’re Only as Good as the Company You Keep by @FSonnenberg. Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? How to Capture What You're Learning From This Crisis Now via @LetsGrowLeaders. What Makes a Community Resilient? via @StanfordGSB. Five Strategies to Challenge Negative Thoughts by @ShirzadPQ via @StanfordGSB. from @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Afterall, we got this far in our careers by following our instincts, practicing what we learned, and applying appropriate business strategies. Over the course of a career, we gain a myriad of tools and tips on how to lead. Executives at the highest level of the company are quick to check the big boxes. But are we leading?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A S A PROFESSOR, an entrepreneur, the president of Stanford University, and now the Chairman of the Board of Alphabet (Google’s Parent company) and Director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, John Hennessy has had a lot of leadership experience. Beyond personal enjoyment, though, this lifelong curiosity has served me well in my career.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You’ll only stay a high performer if you adapt your capabilities and approach to what your company needs at the moment.” What does your company need for you to deliver? As your career evolves, your continued high performance will require you to show new behaviors. Continue to grow into the needs of your organization.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Master of Change : How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformation—both good and bad—regularly.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Most entrepreneurs never went to college, and most did not start their companies until they were well along in their careers. The average entrepreneur is nearly forty years old when he launches , and more than eighty percent of all new companies are stated by people over thirty-five. Building a company takes time.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

R OBERT IGER has worked for the same company for forty-five years: twenty-two of them at ABC, and another twenty-three at Disney, after Disney acquired ABC in 1995—the last fourteen of those years, as the CEO of Disney. Iger writes of the key mentors in his career and his relationship with Steve Jobs, George Lucas, and Michael Eisner.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2018

That experience has led him to write Connecting the Dots as a way to help others to learn from the key events in his life and career as they navigate business and life. This has been a critical skill throughout his whole career. Chambers reimagined it to be a company that would change the way we “work, live, learn, and play.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Rebooting Work by Silicon Valley legend Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler is a sensible look at the changing nature of the workplace and how you can use emerging technologies to take charge of your career. Companies are changing too. To become a CEO of your own destiny. Employees must become more self-reliant.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This is a guest post by Joel Garfinkle, author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level. I can’t get ahead because nobody knows who I am or what I do for this company,” is a common refrain. Believing it’s the boss’s job to manage your career. Career management is your job, not his.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

That vision may differ for successful leaders: some want to grow their business into a huge company, while some want to stay small and keep a family atmosphere in their company. The autopilot system leads to us making too-optimistic plans and ignore weaknesses and threats in our businesses and our careers.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Throughout the book, Novelli argues that you can make a positive social difference regardless of what business you are in or where you are in your career. Hot Seat : What I Learned Leading a Great American Company by Jeff Immelt with Amy Wallace. or can be inspired by Novelli's story to make the leap to somewhere they can.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. I found this comment especially useful as it speaks to the mission here at LeadershipNow: In the business arena, entrepreneurial leaders must think and behave as if they own the company—whether they do or not.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2019

But Herrera—CEO and cofounder of the HR service company Populus Group—say that’s exactly what leaders do. Everyone you hire started their career climb before you met them, and they will continue climbing for a long time after their tenure with your company is over. Leaders share their gifts with others.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

I MAGINE that this is your situation: Your young company is a raging success. His name is Henry Ford, and we all know what the Ford Motor Company is. Let me set the scene, and then talk about the decision Ford made to save his company—a business decision that Fortune magazine said is the “greatest” of all time. Henry Ford.

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