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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills. A Version 1.0 Version 1.0’s

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Never Enough : A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning by Mike Hayes (Celadon Books, 2021) Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Winning organizations aren’t fear-free; they know how to reframe fear into opportunities for learning and growth. Blog Post ).

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Pain VS Gain: How to Best Motivate Buyers to Buy

The Empowered Buisness

Great sales pros know exactly how to influence either type, because they ask a powerful question that tells which person is sitting in front of them (or on the phone). In a word, great salespeople know how to speak a buyers “dialect.” You then utilize your newly discovered verbal agility to speak their dialect. How to use this?

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Leading to Disruptive Innovation

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But leaders who recognize that surprises are an inevitable part of the process (and a natural part of business, and life) are best able to actually use surprise as a strategic tool – which makes them the most agile and fastest to capitalize on unforeseen events. To learn more, visit: [link]. To register now, visit: [link].