Coaching Tip

JANUARY 25, 2017

Asked to describe an ideal team or organizational culture, most employees will use words like supportive, transparent, authentic, collaborative, and trusting, yet when asked to describe their company's actual culture, they will use words such as competitive, political, territorial, untrusting, and conflict averse.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 23, 2013

Office cliques can affect workplace culture in a variety of ways.according to nationwide survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder from May 14 to June 5, 2013, among a representative sample of nearly 3,000 full-time, private sector U.S. John Agno: When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

One way forced people to maintain a neutral expression, another prompted a polite smile, and a third resulted in a full smile that uses the muscles around the mouth and the eyes. "We Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2013. Related articles. Our Social Brain. How Smiles Control Us All. Leader, Being Fit Matters.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 5, 2013

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Frank Sonnenberg , from FrankSonnenbergOnline : “Trust is the cement that binds relationships, keeping spouses together, business deals intact, and political systems stable. Ah, if only I had this when I got my first promotion. This list is a keeper!

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Advice Self-aware Lewin Blog 307

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 8, 2013

It is understanding that ‘office politics’ is a reality to be dealt with, not ignored or even looked down upon. Whenever two humans get together, there are ‘politics’ at play, affecting your performance, the perception of your performance, and therefore your pay.

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Politics Tools Environment Skills 46

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Who says women don’t like office politics? They’ve all complained about office politics. Some women claim they are not good at it, while others simply avoid certain hot-button business situations because they think playing politics is “sleazy.”. Politically speaking, operating in “survival mode” can leave us isolated.

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Politics 360-Degree Feedback Skills Seminar 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2013

Within her book, Deirdre covers topics from personal Politics, Fear, and Energy to Reputation, Stories, and Hunger. Regardless, her book was a sound reminder of what should be important to a leader and reflective of those I’ve most admired and aspired to emulate throughout my career. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2013

AMA Business Boot Camp : Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Develop a personal leadership style; building power and influence and motivating ‘difficult’ people while avoiding the pitfalls of office politics. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Resources Competitive Advantage Leadership Styles Books 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2013

AMA Business Boot Camp : Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Develop a personal leadership style; building power and influence and motivating ‘difficult’ people while avoiding the pitfalls of office politics. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Resources Competitive Advantage Leadership Styles Books 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Miss key organizational clues, norms, decision networks and politics. ?These Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Or, if they do, they don’t care, demonstrating a fundamental lack of empathy and social awareness. You cannot be a good leader without empathy, period. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

For example, in 2013 Time predicted Millennials would “save us all” because they are “more accepting of differences…in everyone.” Millennials, those Americans now between 16 and 36 years old, are often spoken of as if they’re ushering in a new era of enlightened interpersonal relations.

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Class Survey Comparison Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The onslaught of mounting stressors include global challenges, such as climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil – as well as personal and professional challenges, such as illnesses, job changes, and organizational restructuring. For many of us, the initial response to stress is to look for external fixes.

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Stress Root Cause Analysis Learning-by-Doing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Perhaps you originally left because you “felt dead-ended in your career and now have an opportunity to come back at a higher level.” Beware, too, that because it’s likely that you are coming back to your employer with higher status, “the politics of an organization changes at different levels.”

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Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. Juvan got some political flack from fellow lawyers, but she didn’t back off. When Juvan started using social media a decade ago, very few lawyers used such tools. Good thing.

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Media Marketing Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. It causes conflict in couples who then need to battle it out over who does what at home and whose career takes precedence at work. It's a political, economic and social one.

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Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Augustus : First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy Goldsworthy’s biography of Augustus is about the man and the social and political climate in which he maneuvered. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013. We need to be a perpetual rookie. Blog Post ).

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

We can’t get jobs—much less careers. It’s roughly one in five in Europe, and it’s getting worse , not better: youth unemployment rates reached record highs in 2013 in Greece ( 65% ) and Spain ( 56.1% ). Think again. Opportunities for young people in many nations are somewhere between LOL and nonexistent. The jobs we can get are awful.

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Transportation Education Hedge Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Slaughter, Sandberg and Mayer are at different stages of their careers and lives, and have very different ideas around a woman''s relationship to work and home. Here''s what we found when comparing the 3 women: Brand Passion Index for April 2012- April 2013.

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Cost Brand Media COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

On the Monday after the Paris terror attacks (and two weeks before the shootings in San Bernardino), I taught a session at Harvard Business School on what Boston’s response to the 2013 marathon bombings can tell us about going from “nothing to something” in cities. Careers get established. Let me explain.

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Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

“Still No Progress After Years of No Progress,” reads Catalyst’s recently released 2013 census of women directors and executive officers in the Fortune 500. To increase the sample size for a country-focused analysis of New Zealand, we administered the survey to a second wave of New Zealand directors between December 2012 and March 2013.

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Diversity Survey Sample Analysis 12

Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

With the Boomer generation staying in the workforce longer due to declining retirement savings and increasing cost-of-living expenses, organizations are not only having to deal with three different generations of employees working together, but also the impact of a slowdown in the rate of upward career movement for younger workers.

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P&L Fraser Motivation Organizational Behavior 264

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

These larger companies, once considered pinnacles of career opportunity, have become employers of last resort. In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. Unless the companies make radical changes, the best talent will go elsewhere.

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Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Engineers are taught that “engineering work can and should be disconnected from ‘social’ and ‘political’ concerns because such considerations may bias otherwise ‘pure’ engineering practice,” to quote a 2013 study by Erin A.

Engineering 8

Engineering Diversity Survey Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? Both challenges were fundamentally political with a small “p.” At a time of profound volatility in the U.S.

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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The Women's Leadership Blueprint is consistent with what one would expect among all successful executives--that is, striving to achieve the best , showing confidence, effectively influencing others, leveraging cognitive ability, and having awareness of organizational politics. Tosi on April 1, 2013. This is such a book!

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Self-aware Leadership eBook Leadership Styles 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

The politics of office life seldom fail to flummox and frustrate the top female executives my partners and I coach and train. In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. HBR Guide to Office Politics.

Politics 8

Politics Strategy 360-Degree Feedback Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, there’s an investment seemingly every week; venture-capital investment in the tech sector increased from less than $30 million in 2011 to more than $1 billion in 2013. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

At the current rate, Europe’s recovery from the current slump, between 2007 and 2013, is behind its growth rate from 1929 to 1935 — of course, those were the years of the Great Depression. As a life-long Republican (I served a political appointment in the Bush 41 administration), I’m disposed to agree with those concepts.

Politics 8

Politics Budgeting Policies Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Almost a quarter century ago, journalist Alan Ehrenhalt set out to describe the nation's political landscape by looking at the priorities and concerns not of voters but of those who run for office. Those are the sorts of people who get elected at this juncture in American politics. Politics is just messy.

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