Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Many of the painters we now celebrate as creative geniuses devoted a significant portion of their careers to copywork. Studies show that the better we perform a task, the worse we are at communicating how we managed to do it. Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 25, 2011

My friend was a top student and multi-sport athlete in high school, and he eventually got a football scholarship and later had a successful career as an executive. His drive to achieve in class and in sports kept him on mostly on track during the wild ride of his teen journey. Don't you need to sow some wild oats? Lucky for him!

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Create additional, in-depth training programs for managers. When a potential HR discrimination issue arises, it will likely be brought to the attention of one of your managers first. Create a diversity plan in your hiring process. Create a career development plan for employees. Avoid Wage and Hour HR Issues.

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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. Managers claim they value people in their organization. Are You Above and Beyond Coaching?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 30, 2015

Poorly handled change management causes employees frustration, discomfort, disengagement, and a hasty search to reconnect with other more meaningful frameworks in their lives. 2 Similarly, change can challenge the identities employees have built, also draining felt significance and meaning in the process. Defuse Fear of the Unknown.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 5, 2010

Miller advocates for “management by asking” in her post “ Socrates Was On to Something.” Learn how to get the most out of blogs, books, seminars and other resources, whether the subject is management, leadership or any other self-improvement effort, the process for using the information is the same. posted at TalentedApps.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Practice Full Spectrum Management . 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.”. Look for the remaining 15 lessons over the next 3 weeks Lead well!

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The research explores around thirty years worth of data on many thousands of immigrants in Switzerland, and discovered that those immigrants who did manage to naturalize, tended to earn more money than their peers who had not obtained Swiss citizenship. Overcoming discrimination.

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HR Digest

APRIL 14, 2022

employees believe it is critical for managers to admit mistakes, yet only 51% believe their bosses do so. Neuroscientists have even discovered that the brain processes praises in the same way that it receives monetary incentives. What to do: You can argue all day, but it probably isn’t worth the time, or trouble.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 2, 2016

Friends recalled his bloodshot eyes, his inability to process the disaster. It was this overpowering appreciation that life was wild and precious and fleeting, that undoubtedly propelled TR to become the youngest person to ever be President. All three deaths – father, mother, and wife - were a complete shock.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The process could get companies into legal trouble if it ends up excluding minorities or the disabled. Globally, spending on so-called talent-management software rose to $3.8 Managers who go with their gut might get it right sometimes, but their hunches generally have little value in predicting how someone will perform on the job.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 5, 2022

I’ve had a rather charmed career, a blessed marriage, was making a confident walk through the world, and then I was stuck. The line is becoming thinner and thinner between work and home, and we need more discipline, process and focus. As we said during “The Process” - “patience is the great arbitrage in sports,”.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I’ve had a rather charmed career, a blessed marriage, was making a confident walk through the world, and then I was stuck. The line is becoming thinner and thinner between work and home, and we need more discipline, process and focus. As we said during “The Process” - “patience is the great arbitrage in sports,”.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 28, 2021

I’ve had a rather charmed career, a blessed marriage, was making a confident walk through the world, and then I was stuck. The line is becoming thinner and thinner between work and home, and we need more discipline, process and focus. As we said during “The Process” - “patience is the great arbitrage in sports,”.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 4, 2018

The CEO Next Door is the new book that offers career advice for everyone who aspires to rise in their organization and achieve their full potential. Those busted myths, described more fully later in this post, include: Over 70% of CEOs set their sights on the top job late in their careers. Only 7% graduated from a top university.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“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 “Management is about arranging and telling. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. ” Management Science 56.2 Paper presented at Academy of Management Meetings. v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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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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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you’re making a big career change, gaining new qualifications or re-training will help to support your new business. The successful entrepreneur knows how to manage those fears, and understands that failure can just be another step on the road to success. Get some new qualifications. Do your research. ​ ​ 2.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

For me, this includes eating “cleaner” – more whole foods, less processed, etc. I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. I try to take a few minutes every day to be alone with my thoughts and to process what is going on around me. Focus, Always.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Many managers of data science teams become managers because they were great individual contributors and not necessarily because they have the skills or training to lead a team. (I Great data scientists have career options and won’t abide bad managers for very long. What does it take to become a great manager?

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? I hope you enjoy these pieces and launch into the New Year with exuberance and peace.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I argued that such rating systems don’t accomplish the task managers expect from them, which is to accelerate the performance of their people. However, even if these were sufficient goals, managers would still be frustrated by how poorly ratings-based Human Capital Management (HCM) systems achieves them. False Precision.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

He decided to stop thinking of his career as something separate from himself, and the values, ideals and principles that were important to him. He decided it was time to pursue a path that baked his mission into his career. It was just one of the many ways that Ben decided to bake his mission into his career.

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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. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 21, 2010

Here’s a few of the things Tony shared: It’s starts with the interview process… 50% of the weight of your interview results relate to your fit with culture; Zappos.com is always watching… candidates are brought to the Zappos.com site via shuttle. So how does Zappos make sure the values aren’t just “word’s on the wall”? Thanks for commenting.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Originally published on Management Craft December 30, 2009. Originally published on Management Craft April 20, 2012. Originally published on Management Craft April 26, 2005. Why do I share this story on my little management blog? I hope you enjoy these pieces and launch into the New Year with exuberance and peace.

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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. It's possible to learn these skills, but, for many, the process sucks the joy out of their chosen field.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. You guys are the experts and I’m expecting to help me to learn this process. So they no, they actually terminated him.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. You guys are the experts and I’m expecting to help me to learn this process. So they no, they actually terminated him.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

That’s bad news and worse management. Did I mention they have petabytes more data to play with and process? In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2009

Ass-U-Me Oscar Wilde said “ Assume and you make an Ass out of U and Me ”. Most of the time, we just go through the process of communicating through email, text, IMs, powerpoints, but not realizing that the recipient may not understand it. There is an element of truth in this. 13 Responses to Lack of Communication You Say?

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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. ” An outsider may have no idea what connects these two positions and assume your career path is somewhat random. Yulia Reznikov/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Veronica sells her cotton to Cargill, and her corn to COMACO, a local nonprofit that markets food to consumers while also striving to save wild animals and ecosystems. As one of the world's largest food companies, we knew we could help African food processors and smallholder farmers by sharing our food processing expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Firms in these industries and their customers who thereby benefit from lower prices (admittedly through processes they never see) benefit greatly. Here a few notable examples. Economists and big data.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

A carefully designed "architecture of participation" that blends wild-eyed creativity with the spirit of unblinking competition. But you can make your career. To maximize the effectiveness of this grassroots collaboration, encourage participants to compete with each other — and learn from each other in the process.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Create additional, in-depth training programs for managers. When a potential HR discrimination issue arises, it will likely be brought to the attention of one of your managers first. Create a diversity plan in your hiring process. Create a career development plan for employees.

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