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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

There’s not a lot we can do about the processing power between our ears. Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise.

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Consultants: Resistance Is Futile

N2Growth Blog

When you look back on your career, you remember the jobs you took, the jobs you declined, the opportunities realized and the opportunities lost. Her world is complex, she relies on robust processes, continuous improvement and highly experienced employees to meet the needs of the business. You also remember the Consultants.

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Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” High-performing operational teams are a hybrid of both types.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. ” Since participation in this career/leadership program for “high potentials” is voluntary, defensiveness is usually low, and interest in learning and developing is high.

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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied

Leading Blog

Steinway & Sons spiraled into decline “in large part due to its myopic obsession with craftsmanship at the expense or technological advancement and automation.” As P&G chairman William Cooper Proctor said in 1933, “This [synthetic detergent] may ruin the soap business. Corporate leaders need to absorb career risks….

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How To Write a Professional Development Plan

Strategy Driven

The result of the said plan should be reaching your career objectives. Here are some examples: You can say that you’re “technology-savvy” and then elaborate on the apps you can use and the level of expertise for each. You can include “cooperative” and specify the way you work with others on projects. Conclusion. Set objectives.