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How to Get Promoted to Vice President

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It depends on the industry, but in most large organizations, a promotion to vice president is the entry point to the executive ranks. If you want to be promoted to VP, let key senior leaders, including your managing executive, know that that’s your goal. Nine times out of ten, the best advocate is going to be your executive manager.

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How to Win with Pattern Recognition

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As an executive coach and advisor to senior executives in a wide range of industries, pattern recognition is vital to my work as well. Doing that puts them ahead of competitors who don’t by identifying new opportunities to leverage and avoiding being blindsided by emerging trends.

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Leaders, Welcome to the Beginning of Phase 2

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From my vantage point of speaking with around a dozen leaders from different industries every week since the pandemic began, I’ve concluded that we’re at the end of Phase 1 and the beginning of Phase 2 of what it means to live and work in this new world.

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How to Get and Be a Great Peer Coach

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Sales Executive, Pharmaceutical Industry. “I “Peer coaching helps to create an environment in which I can be vulnerable without fear of being judged. Knowing that my peer coach has my best interests at heart allows me to be brutally honest.” – Paul P., I found a tremendous amount of value in working with my peer coach.

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My Dad The Servant Leader

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As the service economy has grown and the industrial economy has declined, Charlotte’s population has grown to more than a million people and Huntington’s has shrunk to 47,000. They moved back there even though Dad had the skills and background to set up shop in a city where he could have made a lot more money.

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Leadership and Your Long Term Legacy

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.  My friend told me about an executive she knows named Bill who's been with the company for more than 30 years and who, through his leadership and tough love mentoring, has developed two generations of world class supply chain managers.    They've set the standard in their discipline for their industry and others.

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How to Lead Like a Pig

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In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. With the newspaper industry being what it is, the employees of the Trib had some choices to make. What about you?

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