Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Even early in his career, he possessed those qualities, and his reputation only grew throughout his lifetime. You don’t have to be a corporate CEO to benefit from Ford’s example. I MAGINE that this is your situation: Your young company is a raging success. Your great manufacturing process is driving your employees away.

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The Office Blend Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

For example, discussions of hybrid work (a conversation indeed long-overdue) will likely swing toward less time spent in the office, possibly bypassing the individuals needs of contributors. But in the wake of the incoming shifts, we need to attempt to keep our heads clear & level.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 27, 2016

Harper’s enthusiasm for his work leaves each one of us with a similar challenge in our careers, namely: MAKE WORK FUN AGAIN. One of the best examples of this is the world-famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle. Life is too short, and our working careers are even shorter. Can smiling and fun be a core value?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

Take, for example, Jerry Rubin, the one-time wild-eyed Youth International Party revolution-jockey and anti-establishment provocateur. Finally, as a collection of case studies of Personal Brand creation and management. He discusses Nixon’s primarily, but also those of a whole motley cast of the era.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 2, 2023

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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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

For example, California updated its employment laws regarding the classification of independent contractors. Create a career development plan for employees. You can increase engagement and reduce turnover by supporting your employees’ career development goals. Without a doubt, a career in human resources can be a wild ride.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 25, 2015

Millennials look into career paths, goals, and promotion prospects. For example, four days of 10 hours of work would give them a 3-day weekend. Their imaginations run wild and they don’t mind speaking up about what their views are about certain things. The paycheck and job security is just not “it” for them.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 4, 2015

Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild which was made into a film starring Reese Witherspoon, talks about her writing trajectory. Using himself as an example, he writes that whatever he decides to do, he will have to work his way up. Success Can Kill Your Career. There are a few writers whose success actually killed their careers.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2016

He uses many examples of sports franchises that always win and some that always lose. 6 years ago, I was sitting in a Wild Wing Cafe talking about employee development with Rob Carman who I was mentoring at the time. How are you progressing careers, shifting paradigms and impacting others? It is time for a paradigm shift!

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Emily Cooper is an ideal example of a growth-mindset millennial. A great example of this in the show is Emily’s relationship with Pierre Cadaux who referenced an Ameircan pop-cultural classic Gossip Girl and was able to build a better connection with Emily,” says Slater. Because it takes a lot of courage to plunge into the wild.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2020

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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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Earlier on in his career, Adams uttered this famous quote: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”. There was no choice but to stand up to the tyranny and declare independence. They will fall flat. Simplicity.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

1 This feeling of incongruity can be deeply unsettling, for example, when men set off explosives at a marathon race or open fire in a movie theater; that is not how our world is supposed to operate. July 6, 2009), Career Development International , 14(6), 508-533. Their expertise just became meaningless. 1 Heine, S.J., 2, 88–110.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

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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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This platform is not just a digital resume; it's a pivotal tool for personal branding, networking, and career advancement. For example, "Innovative Tech CEO | Driving Digital Transformation and Leading High-Performance Teams." "Updating your LinkedIn profile is like getting a haircut.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! Even if a person was downsized, maybe she was burned out on what she was doing and wants to jump-start a new career. Do what works! Not necessarily.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. “Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which an individual (or leadership team) induces a group to pursue objectives held by the leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers.”–John

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. I managed my restaurant from my hospital bed, by writing the menus, for example. My career would not have been the same had the crash not occurred.” We asked her how she knew when a dramatic career move was the right one.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Many of the painters we now celebrate as creative geniuses devoted a significant portion of their careers to copywork. To learn from your favorite examples, you need to pinpoint what makes them unique. Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. What’s different? 3 Think in Blueprints. 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Establish Guardrails I worked in several large companies during my corporate career, and I can’t tell you the number of pet projects that became my pet peeves. Example: Zig #1: Drive to profitability – have product bring in $20K in revenue. Example: We will have sold 15K units of product.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 12, 2016

But here’s what’s really blown my mind: I’ve also heard from students struggling with who they want to be and what they want to do, graduates nervously embarking on fledgling careers, clergy inspiring their congregations, and teachers tackling the sticky challenges of education. May it bring you to The Radical Edge.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! About the Author Maribeth Kuzmeski, MBA, is the author of five books, including …And the Clients Went Wild! : Do what works!

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2020

She made many decisions during her career as a researcher in the then-new field of radiation. From Marie Curie’s astonishing career, we can learn several important lessons. There are many lessons to learn from Malala’s example. Many decisions are made under traumatic circumstances. Follow your decision, do not give up.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

For example, if you want to open a café and have never worked in the catering industry before, it would make sense to try working in one first. If you’re making a big career change, gaining new qualifications or re-training will help to support your new business. Get some new qualifications.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Let your kids run wild? Check out Franks NEW book, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness on others Follow me on Facebook , LinkedIn , X (Formerly Twitter), Pinterest , and Instagram Do You Make a Good Impression? Do you chew with your mouth closed or can people see and hear what you’re eating a mile away?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

But executives can hurt their careers when they care about something too much. So I worked hard to instead steer him to policy-research assignments and, after the campaign ended, he turned that into a career. No one wants a job or a career they hate. What's your recipe for career success? You're too emotionally attached.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Have you stopped to consider how they’re finding meaning in their careers? Usher is a Canadian anthropologist who recently retired after a career of university teaching and advising provincial governments on the social impact of major infrastructure projects on rural and native Canadian communities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We all know developing a personal brand is valuable, since a strong reputation can put you on the radar for exciting career opportunities. We can all think of examples of women who have been publicly criticized for being “too aggressive” or labeled an “ice queen” or the “b-word.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

This is contrary to every piece of feedback I’ve received my entire career. The feedback we get always has a past: Looking back, Nira’s boss is trying to describe a set of observations, examples, expectations of what she would or should do, or perhaps opportunities he felt she missed which impacted her creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

And despite the antisocial implications of the dark triad, recent research has highlighted a wide range of career-related benefits for these personality characteristics. You can certainly turn them into career weapons, but the group will generally lose the more you win.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Six years into my mid-career move, here are some lessons learned from my personal disruptive trajectory: If it feels scary and lonely, you're probably on the right track.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

For example, one of the most important discoveries in the sequencing of the human genome came from Fred Sanger who reversed his process to achieve a breakthrough. ” When we allow those at the lowest rung of the career ladder to take on the superhero role, and step back ourselves to learn from them, the best ideas can rise to the top.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Lead by example. For example, the Ethics Resource Center reports that businesses that implement formal programs to support ethical choices, such as whistleblowing, decrease counterproductive behaviors and misconduct rates, as well as increasing employee satisfaction. Reduce their temptation. Ethics Managing people'

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