Building Personal Strength

JUNE 25, 2010

Until the hurricanes of 2004 came. Fascinated by this strange equipment, I watched them as they worked the project. 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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

She has learned to perform amid chaos through past postings: the former Soviet republic of Georgia during the 2008 Russian invasion, Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and Indonesia at the time of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. As an example, she described a current project to build an app for justice.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

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? We tend to project onto others our way of seeing the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

You’ve recently launched your brainchild — maybe a new business, a new career path, or a new role inside your existing company. In 2004, Bravo launched Project Runway , the competitive reality TV show for aspiring designers. But things aren’t off to a roaring start. Or is it just…well…a flat line?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As a result, we tend to extrapolate prior trends into future estimates in many domains, ranging from career and compensation expectations to global macroeconomic projections. In the summer of 2004, Peter Thiel's initial investment in the just-started company valued it at $4.9 valuation) in favor of trend extrapolation?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

It''s never foolish to begin preparing for a transition no matter how many years away it is or where you are in your career," says Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence. Show her that you''re willing to pick up the baton on important projects."

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CTO Case Study Career Project 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In a previous article, I wrote about the triangle of players involved in getting a major project green-lighted: Champions, Blockers, and Decision Makers. These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. Advancement.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

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

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project. 2 (2004): 349–399. 3 (2000): 425–455.

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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. But in an age when Google and Facebook — founded in 1998 and 2004, respectively — are two of the biggest companies in the world, those days are over.

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

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 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.

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