Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

All great leaders have one thing in common – they know how to make great decisions. But many people find making great decisions difficult because of common yet avoidable pitfalls. These pitfalls are caused by wrongly held beliefs. Here are 4 assumptions that can get in the way of making great decisions.

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Experience to Lead

AUGUST 24, 2021

He participated in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games and has a career as a motivational speaker. I learned how to read Braile and how to use a cane so I could navigate on my own. When I got to the Olympic Training Center in 2004, I was confident in myself and my abilities. That helped me build my confidence.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Sports Open-book 52

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2012

It was a short blog post by Patrick Allmond entitled, “Do I Really have to learn how to play golf in business?” In fact, an academic study using data from 1998 to 2004 found that executives, who play golf, typically earn more than those who don’t, especially if they play well. From time to time, I have a little rant.

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 25, 2010

Until the hurricanes of 2004 came. You could tell he craved his brother's approval, but he had no idea how to get it. Which is a tragedy, because strong self-esteem is essential if a person wants to tackle the challenges of a career or an intimate relationship. Not once at any time of day. In other words, we had no winter.

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Hotels Power Project Career 86

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 5, 2012

It was a short blog post by Patrick Allmond entitled, “Do I Really have to learn how to play golf in business?” In fact, an academic study using data from 1998 to 2004 found that executives, who play golf, typically earn more than those who don’t, especially if they play well. From time to time, I have a little rant.

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Execution Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Workshop 40

Building Personal Strength

MAY 16, 2010

That evening, Kathleen was explaining to Amie what it was like to learn how to write a novel. She had a successful career as a banker, but after recovering from cancer she decided that she didn't want to continue doing that anymore. 2004 photo by Andre Karwath , used with permission from Wikimedia). Post by Dennis E.

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Learning-by-Doing Travel Class Stress 78

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Howard Morgan and I published an article titled “Leadership Is a Contact Sport” in the fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business that involved more than 86,000 respondents from eight major corporations. They were all given simple instructions on how to follow up with co-workers and how to become more effective.

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360-Degree Feedback Follow-up Ethics Training 96

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. I did just that during the first fifteen years or so of my Navy career.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The person being reviewed should talk with each key stakeholder and collect additional “feedforward” suggestions on how to improve on the key areas targeted for improvement. These are the people who have great careers in front of them. Goldsmith in strategy+business, Fall 2004. References. Gandossy and M. Goldsmith, eds.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure. How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience. She was recently back from maternity leave when, on December 26, 2004, an earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh triggered a massive tsunami. ” You and Your Team Series. Resilience.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. 2 (2004): 349–399. To start, assess the network you have today. There’s no other way to put it.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Others might find that the successful resolution of these conflicts opens them up to new ways of relating to their families and careers. Is your spouse willing to make significant career or personal sacrifices that might be required to support you and the business? Family Questions. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 257

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Murdock purchased the old mill in 2004 and turned it into what journalist Amanda Wilson describes as "a public–private campus that would host research efforts broadly in his areas of interest." Yes, it employs people — but primarily people with advanced degrees from out of town.

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Supply Chain Short-term PR Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

They show how to harness the passions and powers of the various parts of their lives and bring them together to achieve what I call “ four-way wins ” — actions that result in life being better in all four domains, perhaps not all at once, but over the course of a lifetime. Monique Valcour. She was part of the iconic U.S.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Creativity Career 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. Here are four examples: The Bay Area Workforce Funding Collaborative , founded in 2004, unites local governments, community colleges, and businesses in the San Francisco area.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In regular phone calls and meetings for nearly two decades, as well as a biennial Pioneering Leaders summit, the group has been helping each other figure out how to work more effectively so they could have time for their lives, sharing successful strategies and learning from failures. They both wanted important, but not overwhelming careers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 7, 2016

One example of a feminine standard that would counter balance the rigid long hour standard is work flexibility, which would enhance women’s chances of pursuing a career wholeheartedly, as well as invite more men to share equally in care responsibilities, a necessary condition in levelling the playing field for women and men.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

But we have come to embrace the concept of a “career of achievement” in addition to a “career of advancement.” Máirín started working at Red Hat as an intern and later joined us full time in 2004, after she graduated from college. This often creates an army of ineffective and unengaged managers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Here, I will show how to identify and win over a suitable champion—the crucial sponsor who can help you navigate the labyrinth of opinion, prestige, and politics between you and the approval of your project. These champions strive to improve their own career prospects. Advancement. Like most champions, Charlie had a mix of motivations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

People have built careers and launched start-ups with little more than cold emails. (By I’ve received about 25,000 cold emails since 2004 (yes, I do keep track). How to Improve Your Business Writing. As a result, most cold emails fail. But they can work well. This article is about cold emailing a specific person.).

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They make life sacrifices to climb the organizational career ladder. They know how to motivate people one at a time, in groups, or in entire enterprises. If someone had LQ but did not go through career-building experiences, that person wouldn ’t develop the necessary skills to be considered one of the most effective leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. How can you evaluate whether that’s the right work culture for you? Here are some tips on how to do that. Think in steps.

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The senior leader advises the junior employee on his career, how to navigate the world of work, and what he needs to do to get ahead. Just as the notion of a 50-year linear career with a single company or in one industry is outdated, so is the idea that career advice must come from a wise old sage. What the Experts Say.

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Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

So in writing my new book , I set out to find well-known people who have practiced, wittingly or unwittingly, the skills for integrating work and the rest of life and who could not only show that it can be done, but help teach us all how to do it. soccer team that garnered Olympic gold in 1996 and again in 2004.

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Succession COO Career Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Former Google engineer James Damore was hardly the first person to argue that biological differences between men and women determine career outcomes. If the evidence on biological differences is too thin to explain the large gender gaps in leadership roles and STEM careers, is the evidence on gender bias any stronger?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Suddenly, chief diversity officers in corporations around the US started inviting me to speak to their CEOs on how to drive innovation through diversity. In many cases it dramatically changed how a company thought about both diversity and innovation. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

In 2004, Greece surprised the world by winning the European Championship, the toughest tournament in international soccer. But with A players, you might be able to skate by with a hazy picture of the future, or a goal that shifts over time, or an endpoint that doesn’t include a strategy of how to get there.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

As New Hampshire communications director for Dean's 2004 presidential bid, I watched on TV as he gave that now-infamous concession speech after the Iowa caucuses. But his career since highlights the most important tenet when it comes to recovering from a screw-up: don't forget your base.

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How To Committee Media Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As described in Lead The Work , he had an expansive career with Shell that spanned 25 years but unlike many top leaders in the company, he had a break in service at the top of his career. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009.

Leadership Development 8

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 12, 2017

The When I Grow Up spot tapped into growing societal angst over the cubicle careers on offer in mainstream professional life and was the only commercial named to Time Magazine’s Best of TV list for that year. In other words, how to get the attention of the passive candidate? Instead, it was effectively a place to hang out online.

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