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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

” Perhaps you originally left because you “felt dead-ended in your career and now have an opportunity to come back at a higher level.” Whether you’re familiarizing yourself with new processes or new people, there will be a learning curve. But in 2013, after five years at the company, she resigned.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Rookie Smarts : Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work by Liz Wiseman Experience has its upside but its downside may hold us back more than we think. What we know will likely impede our ability to learn and therefore perform. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Blog Post ).

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Why Your Team Needs Rookies

Harvard Business Review

Newcomers face a steeper learning curve, but, because they’re mindful of the gap and want to gain ground, they often deliver results faster. When eBay revamped its induction program to ensure that new hires weren’t just learning about the company but also immediately contributing to it, the results were impressive.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

By 2013, we had honored Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Garrett Camp of Uber, famed choreographer Twyla Tharp, and Gangnam style pop artist Psy. Potential customers for our ideas have a predilection for thinking more about what they are already thinking, of scaling the learning curve they are already on.