Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

by @suzimcalpine Ten Critical Keys For Designing a Creative Culture by @PhilCooke Fifty Something with More Gas Left in the Career Tank But Need a Change? (And if you haven’t, it could be time you need to!)

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2023

Looking the Part, Being the Part by @James_Albright 5 Things To Quit To Become More Successful by @JosephLalonde Identity Politics Comes for Tim Scott by @jamesstrock | Social Conservatives Join the Attack on One of Their Own. Will AI Kill Human Creativity? by @UzziLeadership via @KelloggSchool What Fake Drake tells us about what’s ahead.

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Leading Blog

JULY 28, 2023

S TATISTICS show that minorities and marginalized groups repeatedly experience career-stifling unconscious bias at many points throughout their working lives. They’re also less likely to be given access to the multitude of career development opportunities that make a difference in earning potential. So, what’s the answer?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Young people that believe that their education may be useless and that their career opportunities have fallen apart before they have even started out. Some, without knowing it, were already on the path to success. Success is rarely a straight line. Some had fallen off that path and had to find it again.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

It's Time to Get Rid of S.M.A.R.T. Here's Why & How by @artpetty Are you ready investigate some of life's important questions?

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Generation Why : How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z by Karl Moore Perhaps more than ever before, young people entering the workforce are searching for meaning and authenticity in their careers. The most suffocating iron cage of all is the premise that each of us must have a career.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

I thought back on my running career at Oregon. Randy Komisar on personal success: “Considering personal risk forces us to define personal success. We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. I needed to remain cool.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

9 Roadblocks to Success by @FSonnenberg. Sheryl Sandberg: Careers Aren’t Ladders, They’re Jungle Gyms via @StanfordGSB. Why This Is A Perfect Time To Make A Career Switch by @DrDawnGraham. VIDEO: Culture Leadership Charge - The one lever great leaders rely upon by @scedmonds. Leaders Think First by @JohnBaldoni. by @paul_larue.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Happiness and Success Are Never Permanent and Are Not Tied to Wealth or Ambition. Happiness and success are intangible things. A fulfilling career is never about the money, in the end, but about realizing your true passions. Only you can define what they mean to you, and those definitions will likely shift over time.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. 1:1s are arguably one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members, managers, coaches, teams, and organizations. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

This si a post by Ken Goldstein, author of Endless Encores : Repeating Success Through People, Products, and Profits. Leading through People, Products, and Profits means committing to the idea that talent is a priori to all success. Repeating success is about the journey. Careers can be short or long.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Successful change agents know it’s not about pushing harder, or providing more information, it’s about being a catalyst. Embarking on a journey of self-reflection and discovery, he forged a path to revolutionize his leadership and transform his career trajectory. But change is hard. Could there be a better way? Friedman and Alyssa F.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2023

by @BillStainton What you do every day beats what you do once in a while.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Flux helps readers open this mindset—a flux mindset—and develop eight “flux superpowers” that flip conventional ideas about leadership, success, and well-being on their heads. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Success today,” say Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni in Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go , “rests upon finding ways to continuously expand everyone’s capacity, engagement, and ability to contribute to the organization.”. Career development is nothing more than helping others grow”—one conversation at a time.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And when applied to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen teamwork, and foster success in business. Disruption for disruption's sake isn't a smart strategy when you're seeking ways to accelerate your career and become truly indispensable. Better Humans, Better Performance connects the classical virtues?Trust,

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If you look hard enough you’ll see them next to each other in virtually every successful company and successful career. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Optimism and pessimism can coexist. They seem like opposites, but they work together to keep everything in balance.”. Source: The Psychology of Money.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

With candor and depth, Rometty shares milestones from her life and career while redefining power as a way to drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few—a concept she calls "good power." The result: mixed signals.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Many of the world's most successful leaders take time for self-reflection each day. Everyone wants to move up in their career. One of the best ways to understand what your staff are looking for is to host ongoing career conversations. Knowing this can help you develop a path for their career growth together.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. We need to reorient ourselves to see the big picture so we can tap into the power of small changes that, made today, will have an enormous and disproportionate impact on our future success.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Edmondson We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Fast Forward : 5 Power Principles to Create the Life You Want in Just One Year by Wendy Leshgold and Lisa McCarthy Discover how leaders from the world’s most successful companies are dealing with stress, pressure, and constant change—and still thriving.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. This book is a must-read guide for leaders in various sectors who are keen on not only ensuring current success, but protecting the planet’s future for everyone. Through them all, he's managed to guide his team out the other side successfully.

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2023

☙ When asked the secret of his political success, Ford reveals more than he perhaps intends by replying, “I made everyone else’s problems my problems.” ☙ “Ford never doubted the contribution of college sports to his character or career. Teamwork and grueling preparation were educational values in themselves.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. In Strategy First , Brad Chase, the mind behind some of Microsoft’s largest and most successful initiatives, explains why building robust strategies is the imperative to business success. Dig deeper.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

They all share their methods, their successes and failures, and the lessons they learned. When we get our thinking right, the success comes almost automatically. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. It’s like having a mentor guide your journey.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Throughout the book, Novelli argues that you can make a positive social difference regardless of what business you are in or where you are in your career. Lublin draws on the experiences of the nation’s two generations of these successful women to measure how far we’ve come—and how far we still need to go.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In writing The Grit Factor , Polson made it her mission to connect with an elite pack of tough, impressive female iconoclasts who shared with her their candid stories of combat and career. Game Changer : How to Be 10x in the Talent Economy by Michael Solomon, Rishon Blumberg with Daniel Weizmann.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

I F YOU WANT TO GROW your career, Wharton Lecturer and EMBA Career Director Dawn Graham recommends in her book Switchers , that you “ continually put yourself in situations where you’re the least qualified person in the room.” Perhaps you attribute your success to luck. You need to network to make a career switch.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output. As a leader or manager, you have to attend to the goals of your board or bosses and to the career aspirations of your workers.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2021

This Is The Moment To Reinvent Yourself, Your Organization, and Your Career by @PhilCooke. Ask the expert: Top tips for virtual presentation success via @prezi. In this Twitter thread, we'll go through each to help maximize your chances when fundraising by @RomeenSheth. CEO Coaching: Exactly Where and When Does the Work Get Done?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

How does the organization intend to encourage my professional development and career growth? What advice can you offer on ways I can move forward in my career? What can I do to make the company more successful? What will happen if our organization fails to reach our objectives? How can I be more effective within my role?

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

Courageous acts can be risky—career-wise, socially, and sometimes physically. Detert defines workplace courage as “taking action at work because it feels right and important to stand for a principle, a cause, or a group of others, despite the potential for serious career, social, psychological, and even physical repercussions for doing so.

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Leading Blog

JULY 4, 2021

Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success by Ron Friedman. On the other hand, “being present, focused, committed, and hardworking at home and at work is the path to finding success and fulfillment.”. We are told to work smarter, not harder. Friedman will show you how.

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Leading Blog

JULY 16, 2021

Of all the business and career memes to gain popularity, few have compromised integrity in business, leadership, and personal success more than the expression “Fake it till you make it.” But they take a toll not only on our character but also the enduring success that could be ours. It gets us by.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Sponsorship is a two-way, reciprocal investment where both the sponsor and the protégé are working for each other’s success. It goes without saying that having a sponsor is a huge career plus, but here’s the startling fact, being a sponsor is just as important as finding one. You have skin in the game.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Success is all about getting others to care about what you care about. This is the key to professional success in organizations: Doing the job that is needed by the organization, in the way that is needed by the culture, consistently and reliably. In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2018

She was a valuable ally in her husband’s political career. Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”. Your success as a family. our success as a nation.

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