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Finding Our Second Wave Is Key To Maintaining Career Success As We Age

The Horizons Tracker

Professional sport provides perhaps the most visceral example of career transitions in modern society, as the athletic potential of performers is usually limited to perhaps a decade, after which their physical strength wanes and they’re no longer able to maintain their competitiveness. Past our peak.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success.

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Successful Women More Likely To Be Criticized In The Media

The Horizons Tracker

After examining millions of media references across a wide range of domains, such as business, politics, and sport, the research shows that as one scales the levels of fame, you are far more likely to receive harsh coverage if you’re a woman than if you’re a man.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

LDRLB

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. Responsive leadership focuses on the people—the humanity—within the organization to achieve organizational success.

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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. This was followed by a stint working as a trader for Premier Bet with Tony Bloom, one of the most successful gamblers in the world. Ankersen’s insight was this: soccer is one of the world’s unfairest sports. Let’s consider a few examples.