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Featured Instigator: Susan Mazza

Lead Change Blog

Susan graduated from Penn State with a BS in Finance and International Business. Ultimately she became an IT professional and project manager. After 14 years she made a career leap from implementing technology systems to transforming human systems. Previous 2016 Featured Instigators: 7/2016: Mike Henry, Sr.

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5 Leadership Lessons I Learned by Walking the Camino de Santiago

Leading Blog

While I was walking the Camino, I thought a lot about my career and the leadership lessons I had learned. That book, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide their Teams to Exceptional Results (Career Press), was named a Top 20 Leadership Book of 2016. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School.

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What It Is That Make Immigrants Such Good Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

For instance, I wrote recently about the importance of immigrants for jobs after new research from Kellogg School of Management showed that immigrants actually create a huge number of jobs by virtue of their entrepreneurial abilities. Indeed, of the original cohort, over a quarter had moved abroad, with many going on to create a business.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. These are rich questions that do not yield to simple analysis.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business Review

” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis? Mid-career malaise runs deep. One of the biggest culprits of middle-age career malaise is boredom.

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Is Your Business a Commodity or a Resource?

Strategy Driven

If you simply agree to help implement the client’s preconceived solution, you are not helping the client or your career. Sutton’s bestselling books include: Start Your Own Corporation , Loopholes of Real Estate , and Finance Your Own Business. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Navigating the Emotional Side of a Career Transition

Harvard Business Review

Let me begin this post with a personal confession: Although I’ve talked with many managers about career transitions over the years, I’ve never had a career transition myself until now. For the past 37 years I’ve worked as a management consultant at the same firm I started in straight out of graduate school.

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