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Consultants: Resistance Is Futile

N2Growth Blog

When you look back on your career, you remember the jobs you took, the jobs you declined, the opportunities realized and the opportunities lost. Resistance is Futile”, pretty much sums it up. Her world is complex, she relies on robust processes, continuous improvement and highly experienced employees to meet the needs of the business.

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Understanding the Change Process

Lead Change Blog

Leaders need to redefine resistance. Suffice to say here, change leaders need to redefine resistance as necessary, often critical engagement. While the source of some amusing stories years later, it resembled a living nightmare at the time and remains the bleakest year of my decades-long career. Change is always complex.

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

W HY DO SOME careers stall while others flourish? The careers of one-half to two-thirds of managers and leaders will derail. “At At some point, over half of us will get fired or demoted—or our careers will flat-line, and we won’t reach our innate potential. s resist learning new experiences. It’s a mindset change.

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30 Recession-proof Jobs and Careers

HR Digest

Recession is also a time when people are more likely to make big career changes—whether they’re looking for greener pastures or just want to try something new. So what kinds of jobs and careers are recession-proof? This means that natural processes continue to happen, which is why hospitals will continue to run.

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After the layoff: How to support your team when it just got smaller

Let's Grow Leaders

My LinkedIn feed and email inbox are filled with news of layoffs and reorganizations causing unexpected career turbulence. There was one dark point in my career when I received a call once a quarter for two years, giving me my Reduction in Force (RIF) numbers. Your team will need extra time and space to process their feelings.

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The Long Game with Dorie Clark

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s not an overnight process, but the long-term payoff is immense: to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life, leadership, and your career. The books I mention in this episode are: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Econom y by Jenny Odell. That’s playing The Long Game.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

To better understand the challenges of changing the mindset of employees at an organization, we should identify the factors causing this resistance to change. It is essential to have someone with a bird’s-eye view of the whole process to orchestrate it successfully. Boris Dragovi? Step 4: Operations alignment. And why is that?

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