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How Chance Influences Our Career

The Horizons Tracker

The role of chance A second study , by Audencia Business School in Paris, also found that chance plays a considerable role in our careers. The majority of the participants (62.17%, or 424 respondents out of 682) reported having experienced a chance event that significantly influenced their careers.

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Getting Started Is Harder Than It Looks—Tips for Starting a New Job

HR Digest

Family and friends might have a lot of “new job advice,” but these can often be contradictory and overwhelming when it’s directed at you all at once. This is why our first piece of advice for a new job is to build your confidence up before you get started. Just be prepared and use those points as guidelines.

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Preparing Your Business for COVID-19

Lead Change Blog

The guidance cited seems to fit our intuitions, but is it really sound advice? That’s not good advice at all, because what we need is to get ready for a moderately pessimistic scenario. This is because you are going against your gut reactions, which is what you need for you to fight mental blindspots in your business and career.

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What You Can Do To Create & Maintain A Trustworthy Business

Joseph Lalonde

How far you can get in your career depends on this and will impact what you’re able to achieve. Here’s what you can do to create and maintain a trustworthy business so that you have a rewarding professional career and a company you can be proud of in the end. Establish Policies & Procedures.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

Why Most Change Efforts Fail and 7 Guidelines to Ensure Your Team Succeeds by @JesseLynStoner. 5 Friends: How to Start 2016 via @Mark_Sanborn Good advice. Sleep Deprivation Is Killing You and Your Career via @successmagazine. 11 Ways to Strengthen the Relationships That Will Lead You to Success by @LollyDaskal. by @scedmonds.

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The 5 Most Effective Tactics for Building Cross-Functional Teams

Career Advancement

Improving your communication skills might mean making sure people in your department knows how it’s supposed to flow, or setting up new guidelines. Want one-on-one advice for implementing these strategies in your workplace? Talk with the people you’re building relationships with to get their perspective. Ask what they need.

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On a Double Dutch Tight Rope: Your New Boss and You

Let's Grow Leaders

Over my career, I’ve underestimated the need to adapt well to a new boss more than once. My best advice for teams and new bosses? So here’s my advice for jump-ropers on both sides of the cadence. A Few Guidelines. Trust me, it’s harder to recover… but doable. That’s good. False Security.

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