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Eight Ways Mentoring Brings Out the Leader in Your Employees

Great Leadership By Dan

As a matter of fact, they learned that 80% of active volunteers move more easily into leadership roles and grow their careers further as a result. As adults, we often focus on our achievements when discussing our careers with others. Let’s review these in detail: 1. This contributes to a mentor’s new found empowerment.

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Turning Lemons into Lemonade: 10 Inspirational Examples of Epic Failure and Resiliency

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He hit 714 home runs and struck out 1,330 times in his career. Legend has it he was turned down 302 times before he got financing for creating Disney World. I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded. He said, "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.".

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Top 10 Excuses for Being a Lousy Manager

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Throughout the course of my career in leadership development, I’ve had the opportunity to confront, counsel, and console a lot of bad managers. We have the worst HR/finance/budget/sales processes and policies! As an HR manager, I sometimes had to discipline or even fire bad managers. But those cases were the extreme ones.

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A guide to great development moves

Great Leadership By Dan

The career path to running a business at ABC will now look more like a “Z” (series of different jobs) than a “T” (narrow, vertical promotions). Early career job assignment may not need to be as long; complicated assignments with more significant scope and responsibilities may need more time.