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Change at the Top: How to Succeed with a New Boss

Next Level Blog

The further along you are in your career, the more likely you are to have carved out a lane for yourself and established a track record of success. Getting a new boss can be disruptive for anyone at any level but especially so for senior executives who have invested a lot of time, effort, and ego into their careers.

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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

And then customize the definition for your industry. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Energy & Engagement helping managers become more strategic strategic thinking teach strategy' Use each major decision to catalyze strategic confidence and competence. You can help your managers to be more strategic.

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Veterans Don’t Want Hero Worship At Work

The Horizons Tracker

After all, if workplaces that stigmatize veterans are most definitely bad, workplaces that lionize veterans must surely be much better? One has to wonder just how much of it is due to being frozen out of my traditional forms of employment, however. Overcoming stigma One may assume that the inverse of this situation would be ideal.

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Are You Coachable? Does it Matter?

The Practical Leader

In their new research paper, The New Leadership Frontier: Coachability , Joe Folkman, Jack Zenger, and Kevin Wilde found that this question most clearly delineated successful leaders from those heading for a career crash or derailment. Your coachability correlates very strongly with your leadership effectiveness.

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10 Elements of an Outstanding Customer Service Culture

Skip Prichard

As someone who has spent their career going inside organizations that do customer service extremely well – from Nordstrom, USAA, Southwest Airlines, Zappos , L.L. I blame many of these dubious ideas on the many stories about flashy cultural elements that are, in my opinion, coincidental to a company’s greatness.

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100 Answers to the Question: What Is Leadership?

Lead from Within

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. “My definition of a leader… is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it.” ” –Lao Tzu.

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Right Leadership, Right Model

Great Leadership By Dan

A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. In my long career, 45 years of it as a CEO, I’ve lived that change. In the old days, lots of employees spent their careers as cogs in a giant machine. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned.

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