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How to Complete an Individual Development Plan | Thoughts for the.

Nathan Magnuson

It is completed by the employee (sometimes in collaboration with a supervisor, career coach, or HR representative). Career Goal. A career goal is the next destination you’d like to attain in your career. Having a career goal informs the rest of the IDP elements. What should be included in an IDP? Objectives.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. Could I see the future as a projection of the strides I’ve been able to make, similar to what other women in business have done? And I have to say, this is a very intriguing topic.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Being a founder has a profound impact on your career because it provides a relevant, observable, and hard to imitate signal (the three characteristics of strong reputation signals) of your leadership capabilities. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?”

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Why Your Employees Count as Much as Your Clients

Strategy Driven

As customer expectations are constantly changing, it is ever more critical that businesses are in tune with those trends. For example, in a climate of fear and micromanagement, a sales person might focus on the projected revenue of a prospective client, the anticipated results and closing date that were promised to the boss.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

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6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking

Harvard Business Review

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Third, their external focus keeps everyone aware of emerging trends in the economy and the industry.

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Vacation Policy in Corporate America Is Broken

Harvard Business Review

New research from Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage , also shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, vacation just might be great for our career , too. All of this has culminated in the new trend of eliminating vacation policies, so that employees can make work-life balance decisions that work for them.