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

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

JANUARY 1, 2024

For every good leader who has mastered of one of these disciplines is a great leader who knows and has mastered all of them. Watkins presents the six disciplines that separate the great from the good.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership. Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Of course, you will take the higher valuation, because you’ll give up less of the company, right? Of course, you want the bar to be set low rather than high, to guarantee that you’ll make it over. Of course, there are other reasons not to always take the highest valuation. Valuation is a touchy subject for most entrepreneurs.

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Leading Blog

JULY 4, 2021

Over the course of the last year, he has collected his thoughts on the response to the pandemic and its implications. How do you take apart a work you admire, enabling you to extract its formula and unleash your own creative juices? Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World by John Baldoni.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Courageous acts can be risky—career-wise, socially, and sometimes physically. Detert defines workplace courage as “taking action at work because it feels right and important to stand for a principle, a cause, or a group of others, despite the potential for serious career, social, psychological, and even physical repercussions for doing so.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In Sailing True North , Admiral Stavridis offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. Sailing True North helps us find the right course to chart.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2019

Life naturally pushes us off-course and takes us on tangents. We need to make some course corrections. Of course, this implies getting uncomfortable. Am I where I would like to be in my work or career? Anything meaningful in life is produced by moving upstream – against the current. We all do from time to time.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2018

She was a valuable ally in her husband’s political career. Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you're talking about life -- and life really must have joy. For several years, you've had impressed upon you the importance to your career of dedication and hard work. And, of course, that's true.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Humility, authenticity, empathy, service-mindedness—these characteristics shape a leader’s vision and chart a course toward right action. Beyond personal enjoyment, though, this lifelong curiosity has served me well in my career. Courage, on the other hand, compels a leader to take that right action. Intellectual Curiosity.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

And of course, this means openness to feedback. The great news is, by being the manger for someone whose career you genuinely care about, you are receiving a hands-on education in what constitutes receiving strong management. The authors say the most important thing you can understand about 10x talent is that they love what they do.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

career aspirations, environments they thrive in, and where each type if found organizationally and generationally. The trick of course, is to use this knowledge to modify you own behavior. They also delve into difference between the types as they relate to stress (Pioneers are the least stressed.), Otherwise it’s just a game. “By

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Leading Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Or does this mean that you don’t have anything to worry about if you’re pursuing a career path that involves public communication and effective persuasion? When working with me or taking my courses, they’ll try to emulate that cool, calm exterior — thinking it matches the interior monologue. Au contraire. Very afraid.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

What an amazing player over the course of a long period of time. What an incredible career.” New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said, “Julius has had an incredible impact in the NFL from the day that he came in. Just incredible physical, mental toughness.

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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. That of course means a workplace that rewards people for their performance than their time in. To become a CEO of your own destiny.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2019

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. Regardless of when a person chooses to strike out on a different course, celebrate your time together. Life is a sequence of intersections, shared efforts, and differing goals.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

It is advice for recent college graduates and young professionals of course, but really for anyone working in the Bigs about the kinds of issues they will encounter. Choosing a career you can do well, rather than doing what you want, might sound unappealing, but it isn’t. They didn’t know how the working world actually worked.

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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.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

While it’s not uncommon to feel like you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, I believe by recognizing and taking ownership of our sometimes-wavering emotions – especially in the workplace – we can change our course for the better. The Domino Effect of Positivity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In his mind, if you were going to be a part of Chick-fil-A, there was no reason for you to ever go anywhere else in your career.”. We were accountable in the deals we created, in the relationships we built in the business, in our behavior on the road, in how we talked about the business, even in our language on the golf course.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

Of course, working with others has its challenges. Leadershift #11 Career to Calling – The Passion Shift. Here are a few ideas from each of the leadershifts he describes: Leadershift #1 Soloist to Conductor – The Focus Shift. You can’t do it alone. Leadership is not a solo practice. Adding value every day without keeping score. “As

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Develops People: Shares experience and provides mentoring, coaching, career planning, and development experience to ensure growth and development. But of course, simply following a list is a bit simplistic. Often what got them where they are, is no longer working in their new leadership context.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2012

Then a post like this gets you saying "of course!". SonyaShelton: SAP's CIO: You're Putting Your Executive Career at Risk if You're Not Social - Forbes. What you do that impact relationships even more than what you say. rosasay: not always easy to see change you're in the middle of. You look weak when you make excuses. " Help us grow!

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

He looks at their differing character traits and personalities and the effect it had not only on their careers but on those they lead. It is good for us to slow down and look at these lives and use what we learn to adjust the course of our lives to be the best we can be. and finally, Grace Hopper.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In the documentary, Spielberg said that all of the accolades and big-budget movies that came to him throughout the rest of his prolific career (one that includes directing credits on “E.T.,” “Jurassic Park,” and “Schindler’s List”) were made possible by the success of “Jaws.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

Clark takes you through the whole process, beginning with, of course, starting where you are. Did you know that there is a company that allows you to test-drive over 125 new careers to see if they are a fit?) It’s about making sure that our personal brands reflect the reality of our lives (Facebook notwithstanding). KNOW YOURSELF.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Of course, there are things that we should do even when we don’t want to because they are right. Which of the happiness traps keep me from pursuing my dreams for a better job, a great career, or real fulfillment in the job I have now? The “Should” Trap. Which happiness traps do I keep others in?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

Constantly tinker with ways to expand your horizons, grow your skill set, and disrupt your career or your organization. If you want to stay relevant you’ll have to keep course correcting. But they also realize that big wins come from playing the long shots a=that smaller, smarter wagers subsidize. Rule 7: Experiment Constantly.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. Martin's Press, 2023) In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft. Change is not the exception, it’s the rule.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Although modesty may be valued in the leadership literature, self-promotion and assertiveness seem to produce better career results in the real world. We seem to have a preference for immodest, grandiose, and narcissistic leaders. Pfeffer asks. Because I have been taught to build relationships of authenticity and trust at work.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 30, 2023

While they all had wildly different career paths, they all agreed on one thing: The road to success leads out of your comfort zone. At one point in their career, all the top-level executives I have coached had to take a risk and accept an assignment, team, or job they didn’t feel entirely comfortable with.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2019

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go : Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want. Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Relationship Momentum is a book about how to create momentum for moving your ideas you’re your career) forward. Though it may be a longer distance to travel, that tack is nonetheless the most efficient course. But instead of tacking back toward their strategic end goal, they just continue on the same course.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 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. The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. This of course, is a key to their eventual success. Blog Post ).

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