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How To Embrace Change Throughout Your Career

Eric Jacobson

I don't mean to discount loss and tragedy, which of course happened, but it is also true that many people and companies experienced tremendous growth. Do you believe the pandemic helped demonstrate to people that change can be good? And, will that learning carry forward? Feifer : It definitely demonstrated that.

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6 Ways To Get Effective Feedback To Guide Your Career

Eric Jacobson

Van Rooy, author of the new book, Trajectory: 7 Career Strategies to Take You From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Get feedback through observation : Learning from your successes and failures is a kind of feedback that helps you change your course of action. Watch an interview with the author on VetNet Career Connections.

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Learn MBA Skills In 12 Weeks

Eric Jacobson

Besides Numbers and People, traditional MBAs cover a lot of other topics, such as marketing and operations management that are fascinating, of course. When it comes People, most traditional MBAs offer little that prepares you for the daily challenges of working with a team, with direct reports or working alongside other leaders.

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Leadership Lessons From A Serial Entrepreneur

Eric Jacobson

He began his career at age 23 when he founded Amerex Oil Associates, followed by Hamilton Resources, both privately held. The belief that every inch of a potential course of action must be analyzed before you act. The belief that other people must hold the same opinions as you do.

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How To Create A More Inclusive Workplace

Eric Jacobson

Rising Together is for readers at every stage and level in their careers who recognize that building a broad range of relationships is essential to their advancement, now and in the future. At the time, I saw no connection to diversity, which wasn’t so much of an issue then, but of course connecting the two makes absolute sense.

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How To Hire Greatness

Eric Jacobson

Leaders whose perception of the opportunity evolves over the course of the interviews, because you'll pick up clues about what's important to them. Career progression and career interests. Leaders who have the ability to create excitement as well as enthusiasm and engage employees and stakeholders. Leadership and personal style.

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How To Unleash Your Full Potential

Eric Jacobson

The best leaders make course corrections before they have no other choice. We are conditioned to believe that our careers must unfold like layers of sedimentary rock, one built on the next. I had never taught a day in my life before I spent a year creating a new course at Harvard Business School. Of course, they do.

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