CEO Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

To harness it requires thought and energy that most people simply do not have since the fear itself saps energy and creativity. It is a mature person who can sit back and formulate a plan for positively harnessing fear. For me, the first step would be to manage the stress that fear causes.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 20, 2015

Let us assure you that as you mature or have aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder, the more important self-understanding becomes. In the long run, self-knowledge will save you both time and energy. Look at your common behaviors under stress and learn to control them. Take a personal inventory.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Harsh criticism, bullying bosses, ostracizing colleagues and mistakes can have a toxic effect, increasing our levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, and therefore lowering our reserves of energy and confidence – and even affecting our immune system.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 1, 2015

Simply speaking, default behaviors are those behaviors that we routinely resort to, particularly under stress. As you mature or have aspirations of climbing the corporate ladder, the more important self-understanding becomes. In the long run, self-knowledge will save you both time and energy.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

It’s a hard truth in the process of maturing to realize that not everyone will be your friend, and that’s ok. Change requires energy, more for some of us, and developing the characteristic of adaptability is critical for any leader. Find the people that support you, and those you can support as well. Own your story.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 28, 2022

When you say yes to everything, you’re causing your team to sacrifice your best energies where it’s needed most. Research the impact of stress on the body. Therefore, knowing how to choose the right word, at the right time, is part of maturing. Your health. How effective are you from a hospital bed?

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are promoted with the belief that “ they have potential” or “they are smart and will mature into the position” or “she has been here so long, and no-one knows this department as well as her, she will figure it out” plus many other nonsensical reasons. Why do you still continue to believe this?

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 1, 2011

Allowing criticism to work for you rather than against you is a key to maturing as a leader. This might not change your answer but may change the amount of energy you invest in your answer. Mature leaders are willing to admit fault and recognize areas of needed improvement. A companion post is in order.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Losing your temper only shows a lack of maturity and self-control. If you can’t be fully engaged and devote the time and energy needed to meet with your team, then be honest with them and work to arrange your schedule so that you can give them 100% of your focus. Micromanage – Ugh…even saying the word conjures up stress and anxiety.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

A majority of people at workplace today seem to be struggling to cope with severe stress resulting from conflicting work priorities, hyper-connectedness, onslaught of notifications and information overload. How do we cope up with this stress? Tanmay Vora] We certainly are in middle of a productivity crisis at work.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 23, 2015

Allowing criticism to work for you rather than against you is a key to maturing as a leader. This might not change your answer to the criticism but may change the amount of energy you invest in your answer. Mature leaders are willing to admit fault and recognize areas of needed improvement. This is the companion post.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 27, 2019

It takes a tremendous amount of time, energy, and expense to bring new people into the organization and ramp them up to full productivity, so it’s in everyone’s vested interest to see an employee succeed. Don’t underestimate the destructive power of a toxic, unpredictable employee.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

The unprecedented loss of highly-skilled, senior workers is compounding challenges posed by aging infrastructure, rising power demand, and climate stress. For example, the Pittsburgh-based University Energy Partnership is working with the Energy Department''s National Energy Technology Laboratory and URS Corp. In the U.S.,

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

When you say yes to everything, you’re causing your team to sacrifice your best energies where it’s needed most. Research the impact of stress on the body. Knowing how to choose the right word, at the right time, is part of maturing. Your health. How effective are you from a hospital bed?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

He radiates energy, his eyes are beaming with determination, and he never really comes to a full rest. Sustainable speed does not come from ego-drive, that is, your own personal performance or energy level, but rather from a different approach to engaging with people around you. Maturity and Caliber. Image Source/Getty Images.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 29, 2015

When you say yes to everything, you’re causing your team to sacrifice your best energies where it’s needed most. Research the impact of stress on the body. Knowing how to choose the right word, at the right time, is part of maturing. Your health. How effective are you from a hospital bed?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

To escape from these emotional hostage situations, each of us needs a secure base — a person, place, goal or object that provides a place of protection, gives a sense of comfort, and a source of energy. But it's more than a cliché; it's a useful human response to stress. Feeling connected is intrinsically rewarding to the brain.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Surveying thousands of people across countries and industries to explore the relationship between self-awareness and several key attitudes and behaviors, like job satisfaction, empathy, happiness, and stress. We also surveyed those who knew these people well to determine the relationship between self and other ratings of self-awareness.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Moreover, since most career transitions take commitment and effort, even sustaining that energy will be questionable for a field in which you have no real interest. For example, if you need additional education, there are wide range of programs that welcome and accommodate mature students, including at the degree and professional level.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. ” An Alternative Path. It is something of a boot camp for scientific entrepreneurs like Etosha.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Build a Re-Founding Team. Since then its stock has more than doubled.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

For many employees, a face-to-face performance review is the most stressful work conversation they'll have all year. In most cases you're dealing with mature adults and you'll elicit their honest concerns," says Grote. She thought it portrayed a lack of energy. What the Experts Say. For managers, the discussion is just as tense.

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