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Cognitive Reappraisal for Wild Success

Leading Blog

Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. They are cognitive reappraisal, grit, learning from feedback, finding your spark, innovation, resilience, and building balance. It looks like his career is over. But it isn’t.

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Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies

Let's Grow Leaders

In this podcast episode, Andre Martin discusses the importance of finding the right fit in your career and building a culture that supports employee motivation, engagement, and satisfaction. He emphasizes the need to reflect on values, goals, and ideal work environment before making career decisions.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

The reality is that creativity in your career environment is derived from both the need to solve a problem and the desire to avoid or solve future problems (which often leads to innovation). If you are artistic and creative, that statement most likely gets you excited. To be a wildly successful visionary, you must not fear creativity.

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New Tool Offers Possible Career Alternatives For Those Threatened By Automation

The Horizons Tracker

What is perhaps most interesting, however, is that they also examine how one might transition from a career that is at risk to one where the chances of automation are less severe (and indeed require the smallest amount of training to make the transition). ” Likely impact. Put to the test.

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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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Celebrate Failure

Career Advancement

Trevor wanted his people to be pillars of innovation and creativity. When he came to me for coaching around innovation, he mentioned how fearful his team was in taking risks and possibly touching failure. It’s most fitting to celebrate failures related to innovation, rather than execution, Harvard Business Review points out.

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How to Be an Influencer at Work and Wield Informal Power

Niagara Institute

It doesn’t take a person long in their career to realize that one’s assigned formal title only gets them so far. In reality, negotiating with suppliers or external partners, presenting a wildly innovative idea to the boss, or wrangling a team of peers with no defined leader, requires something much more powerful; and that’s influence.