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How to Solve Our Wild Problems

Leading Blog

The big decisions in life, what Russ Roberts calls Wild Problems — whether to marry, who to marry, what career path to follow, ethical dilemmas — “can’t be made with data, or science, or the usual rational approaches.”. In 1838, Charles Darwin faced a wild problem. So what do we do when faced with a wild problem?

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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. It looks like his career is over. They must be able to execute a plan under pressure. They doubt they can save his leg. But it isn’t. His ambitions have only grown.

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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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8 Conflicting Habits of Wildly Successful People

Lead from Within

To achieve your own wild success, you need to understand how they all fit together. After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. They’re mellow but they know how to be blunt. THE LEADERSHIP GAP.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

In my younger years, I had many visions of the ideas, goals, and positions that I wanted to achieve. 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). Some of them came to fruition.

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The Super Clever Strategy for Winning Wild Success

Lead from Within

3. Stay positive to be productive. To succeed, you have to act, feel look, and conduct yourself from a position of unstoppable positivity in the face of every challenge. The post The Super Clever Strategy for Winning Wild Success appeared first on Lolly Daskal. N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R.

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Change at the Top: How to Succeed with a New Boss

Next Level Blog

The further along you are in your career, the more likely you are to have carved out a lane for yourself and established a track record of success. Getting a new boss can be disruptive for anyone at any level but especially so for senior executives who have invested a lot of time, effort, and ego into their careers.

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