Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. This approach rewards the ability to see and quickly respond to new opportunities and threats over the slower traditional big company departmental responses.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. link] mikemyatt Hi Gordon: Thanks for your sharing your insights and I'm glad you find the posts to be valuable and of interest. Best wishes Gordon… [link] Principal (le?)

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The company had lost both flavor and heat; and nobody likes lukewarm soup. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. How was Nancy going to turn it around?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

link] Gordon R. link] mikemyatt Wow…thanks for the thoughtful comment Gordon. Thanks for sharing Gordon. link] Gordon R. Gordon [link] mikemyatt No worries…I thought that's what you meant. Thanks for the clarification Gordon. susanmazza Gordon, I loved the key points you distilled here!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. My friend is a rational guy, in charge of a large company. So I suggested to Gordon that we go through the revolving door, come back in, and just do it ourselves.”

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Others are mid-level, solo entrepreneurs, retired, or some at some other point in their careers. Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted The 5 Smartest Strategies to Build Influence in the Workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Volcanic ash, generally not on any company's worst case scenario list, disrupted air traffic for several weeks. Speaking of herds, while sacred cows can hold companies back if there is no courage to challenge orthodoxy, cows proved to be a better set of celebrity endorsers than Tiger Woods for Stonyfield Farms and their yogurt marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Your industry or company could be on the cusp of a disaster and you may not know it. Especially in this job market. Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. If you keep at it, you should do fine.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Have you ever noticed that when you ask someone in your company, “How are you?” That is because the norm in most companies is that you are supposed to be very busy – or otherwise at least pretend to be – because otherwise you can’t be all that important. ” they are more likely to answer “Busy!”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

” Or “ maybe I shouldn’t be in [this industry]” Some women scaled back on their ambitions, while others left companies or their chosen industry altogether. I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people’s careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically fraught." But we know that favoritism and bias are all too common in these situations. million are their own fault.

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