Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Get past defensiveness and always look for something useful and constructive in any criticism you receive. Control stress. Breathe through stress. When stress is off the charts, don’t forget to breathe. Accept criticism. As the old ad used to say, never let them see you sweat. Keep your focus. Accept your flaws.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

After a successful career in publishing, consulting, speaking, and business, he was approached by the board to help resurrect the institution. Everything operated as its own unit. Students began emailing me—about a plumbing problem, a question about career options, or just to say how much they enjoyed a particular professor. .

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio. Our compadres would pile into our cramped room to offer praise or constructive criticism. I’m glad I did. That was always a good feeling. An elaborate hoax.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

What do you regret most about your career? But judging from the scores of follow-up questions and the volume of post-lecture emails I received, a talk on career regret would have been the real bull's-eye. Importantly, the effects of bad career decisions and disconfirmed expectancies were felt equally across age groups.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. and people mean relationships. Thanks for sharing Wally.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

For me, operating beyond my comfort zone was participating in classroom discussions in college. Early in my career, it was public lecturing and participating in departmental meetings. Fast forward 20 years, and I am now in the interesting position of teaching and coaching others to operate outside their comfort zones.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Instead, take a few deep breaths to “help you regulate your stress hormones and make it less likely that you’ll engage in behavior that you won’t be proud of later,” she says. ” Over her long career, her empathetic ways have been put to the test. ” Be curious. ” Focus on your similarities. .

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Surveying thousands of people across countries and industries to explore the relationship between self-awareness and several key attitudes and behaviors, like job satisfaction, empathy, happiness, and stress. The human mind rarely operates in a rational fashion, and our judgments are seldom free from bias.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. So how do we deal with these situations?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Career websites like Glassdoor have “taken the mystique and mystery” out of interviews, says John Sullivan, an HR expert, professor of management at San Francisco State University, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. Those answers will help you create criteria and enable you to construct relevant questions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

A 2008 Wall Street Journal analysis of boards in the troubled financial services, retail, and home construction sectors revealed that nearly 50 non-executive directors who were full-time CEOs or CFOs elsewhere resigned their posts that year. Of course, director resignation in times of crisis is sometimes warranted and perhaps even necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

As we approached Nippori Station on the East of Tokyo the announcer apologized that the train was three minutes late, explaining that they were "operating at lower speeds for the purpose of energy conservation." He is a tough guy, used to running large construction sites and dealing with labor, politically conservative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

Moderately political organizations also operate largely on widely understood, formally sanctioned rules. Working in organizations like this can be very stressful. That’s why more organizations should actively foster constructive politics. Political behavior, where it does exist, is low-key or deniable. It happens.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Given that the IP construct is used to describe people who deliver superior work, and conscientiousness is known to be a good predictor for academic and job performance, this negative association doesn’t seem to make sense. Moreover, it’s important to note that impostor tendencies do not operate in an environmental vacuum.

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