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Why Every Fortune 1000 CEO “Needs a Therapist”

Lead Change Blog

Shocking advice? At one conference I attended (the Direct Marketing Association, no less!) These interviews covered aspects of the innovation and change these futurists predict, to the timeline and ever-accelerating pace of this change, to suggestions about how the industry could cope with the change to come.

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Why Career Progression Starts with Self-Improvement

Strategy Driven

Talk to Your Manager. It is important that you let your employer know about your ambitions, and ask for advice. You might want to volunteer for new projects or get advice on how to secure more qualifications. Sometimes the best approach is the direct one. Below you’ll find a few tips. Discover the Next Step.

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How to Start Up Your Own Business

Strategy Driven

Again, get the advice of insurance experts. Today, besides direct marketing, using digital marketing to its fullest extent will ensure that people get to know about you, quickly! Here’s some sound advice – only market when you’re ready to. It could be a small thing that would never occur to you.

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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

Jacoway "I leverage my avid love of learning and mastery of online technology to facilitate career management for trend-setting professionals who strive to be dynamic and high achieving in their business." Pioneer in wellness and prevention programs, disease management and population health." Nine years later, she has more than 3.6

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Who's Your Brand's Editor-in-Chief?

Harvard Business Review

Thomas Pink's Pink TV runs fashion-show type videos oriented to different "wardrobe occasions," such as formal, corporate, and casual, with how-to advice on getting the tie knot or color coordination just right. Viewers can click to further explore and purchase the goods described.

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How My Company Hires for Culture First, Skills Second

Harvard Business Review

No technology company hiring manager would ask a programmer applicant to teach the alphabet, but it's the first thing a school administrator might ask of a teacher. Interviewing for values may sound difficult, but it can be easily embraced throughout the organization and by hiring managers. But skills don't tell the whole story.

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You Can’t Move Up If You’re Stuck in Your Boss’s Shadow

Harvard Business Review

It used to be that the surest path to career greatness entailed “hitching your wagon to a star manager — as your boss rose, you rose too,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. . What the Experts Say.