Coaching Tip

APRIL 30, 2015

He was self-conscious and awkward, and unable to speak with authority. Over a period of months, Paul's clients and employees began to see him as a relaxed, confident leader, and Paul responded by developing even more self-assurance. . But in his new position, Paul was suddenly a misfit — or so he felt. But not the bulldozer.

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Waldroop Execution Career Learning-by-Doing 70

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

A flexible employee demonstrates proficiency in a variety of areas, allowing for greater use of skills and less resistance to re-organizations, transformations, or company developments. They are all self-learners and continuous learners. Self-assuredness. They take it upon themselves to pick up new skills. Embrace happenstance.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

These ventures are unified in their vision — really more of an obsessive quest — for a more sustainable and resilient future for humanity, executed through a mixture of brilliant engineering and out-of-the-box thinking. Soon, such behavior becomes self-defeating. Exceptional success can lead to deluded self-perception.

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Succession Armstrong Self-aware Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

But the benefits of cognitive diversity do not materialize automatically — they have to be engineered. It is fueled by self-reinforcing behavior — feedback loops that reinforce and amplify. The more we’re aware of the paths that constrain our thinking, the less captive we are to them.

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Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. Intrapreneurs can transform an organization more quickly and effectively than others because they are self?motivated Pattern #5: Pivoting.

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Self-aware Innovation Engineering Outsourcing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

We heard freelance journalists, consultants, designers, software engineers, and executive coaches share tales much like those of the artists we spoke to. A masterful self is not just a source of personal pride. Underneath their pursuits of independence and portability lies a shared aspiration to fashion a masterful self.

Career 12

Career Uncertainty Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

But the benefits of cognitive diversity do not materialize automatically — they have to be engineered. It is fueled by self-reinforcing behavior — feedback loops that reinforce and amplify. The more we’re aware of the paths that constrain our thinking, the less captive we are to them.

Productivity 10

Productivity Products Brainstorming Diversity 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We all know the trope “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold ” (a quote by Andrew Lewis on MetaFilter ), but what would actually happen if the email providers, social media platforms, and even search engines we use every day were no longer free?

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Media Self-aware Advertising Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Convincing a Google-sized workforce not to resist his ideas, let alone embrace his initiatives, was a huge challenge for Brian—who was not the boss, didn’t lead a huge coalition among those he was trying to influence, and couldn’t horse trade to compel their cooperation. ” Are You the Best Messenger? .”

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Hovland Sherif Company Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

For proof of how far this self-confidence can go, look to Ellen Langer's research on the "illusion of control." And here's one last piece of research I can't resist citing in a discussion of why leaders are so likely to double-down on bad bets. They worried that it made Kent and the company look unequal to its challenges.

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COO Collins PR Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and the author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and The No Asshole Rule , says this is part of the human condition. Sutton notes that we all have a tendency to look for confirmation of our own opinions, but we should also resist it. What the Experts Say.

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Goleman How To Emotional Intelligence Self-aware 16