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Disciplined Thinking

Lead Change Blog

Since my most current challenges revolve around shifting my professional focus toward the world of real estate, the examples that come to mind to illustrate these three areas will relate to that particular and very personal transition. SELF-DISCIPLINE. We always have to start with ourselves …. We did not build this ourselves ….

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions.

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

Transitioning from a military career to the corporate world can be a fraught process for the nearly 360,000 U.S. In addition to networking their way into new professional circles and learning new cultural mores, veterans have to face down the even more fundamental questions: what career will best suit them?

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The Business Story Behind a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

In a real-estate role-play, the setup was that the buyer was seeking to turn a piece of property into a tourist hotel against the wishes of the seller, who hoped it would be used for residences. Many “need hand-holding from outside sources in redirecting their careers,” Leigh McMullan Abramson writes in The Atlantic.

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For a New Way to Manage Risk, Look to the Past

Harvard Business Review

And getting past the usual employee complaints about the financial sector (long hours, for one), he offers several often-hidden occupational hazards for the stellar university graduates who think they can make it in the industry while also holding on to ethics and personal responsibility.

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Attitude Reflects Leadership

N2Growth Blog

People who have bad attitudes have more career turnover. After a further two years, during which I was looking for a new career start, I finally decided to work from home and be closer to my wife and beautiful eight year old daughter whom I had neglected a lot while running these businesses in the first place.

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The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should.

Terry Starbucker

It was 23 years ago, and I was just starting my leadership career. Thank you for sharing your story about your boss – I love his attitude and am sure that so much of what you later accomplished was because he helped you “fix&# that “can’t&# mentality early on in your career! It’s useless.