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Foxes And Hedgehogs: Which One Are You?

Lead Change Blog

In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. With a background in public relations, marketing, and internal communications, HR had become an accidental specialty – I was a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.

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Is Being A Digital Nomad Only Possible If You Work In A City?

The Horizons Tracker

The “Free Agent Nation” first proposed by Dan Pink in 2001 was finally here. Polarized labor The research examined the use of online labor platforms, such as UpWork and Fiverr, and found that they tend to mirror the broad polarization of labor markets according to both skills and geography.

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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. It provides loans of up to €100 billion to member states. It’s by no means a silver bullet, but it is perhaps a start.

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Accelerate Your Growth through Agile HR Practices

HR Digest

IBM is one of the leaders in agile adoption and has multiple articles that encourage the early inclusion of agile HR project planning and enterprise agility at all levels of the business. It encourages immediate, internal interaction and a change-centric approach to work across projects and teams.

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Exploring the Unknown

Lead Change Blog

I had worked with the founder Robert Green on a project and I thought it would be fun to join him and his wife Annabelle in their new company (Robelle = Robert + Annabelle). I was too inexperienced to know that this was the essence of marketing and selling products. No one told me that startups were risky. Career Risk.

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Winning Principles For Leaders And Coaches

Eric Jacobson

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. Free employees to do their jobs and to make decisions.

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The Leadership Playbook Of Bill Campbell

Eric Jacobson

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. Free employees to do their jobs and to make decisions.