The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Forming bonds. Research from Harvard Business School offers us hope that bonds can indeed be forged virtually if managers go about things in the right way. As our technology use has skyrocketed, loneliness has simultaneously risen, ” says Deloitte’s Jen Fisher and Ahn Phillips in their recent book Work Better Together. “In

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Karin shares: “One of the true delights during this challenging time of social distancing is watching the creative use of technology—not only as we work from home, but in our personal lives as well. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Balance your Workload on High-Visible Projects. Here’s help.”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. At its core, gossip is the highest form of disloyalty, and it is far from innocent or idle.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Ben Brabyn presents Leadership as storytelling – how narratives bond teams posted at Ben Brabyn , saying, “How leaders can use storytelling to bond high performing teams.” posted at MAPping Company Success , saying, “Longer term focus or more expedient approach? posted at Get Your Leadership BIG On!

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Ben Brabyn presents Leadership as storytelling - how narratives bond teams posted at Ben Brabyn , saying, "How leaders can use storytelling to bond high performing teams.". No technology or rote process can give you the “correct” plan – BUT a solid process for planning can guide you to the best plan for your team and you.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

A leader who fails to understand this will never create the trust bond necessary to lead effectively. Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Follow Through : It takes no ability to simply do what you say you’re going to do.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

My students frequently ask me how I planned out my career to become president of Fidelity Investments. I always tell them, "There was no grand plan; I backed into my career one step at a time.". What does my history suggest about career planning? That you can't control the trajectory of your career.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. While feigned humility is the height of insincerity, authentic humility is the most sincere form of confidence and strength.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Your relationship with your boss is critical to your success. But there’s another person who often has just as much influence over your career: your boss’s boss. ” Show that you care about your company and that you are serious about your career. Find a common bond. How often should you interact with her?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

By way of contrast, it is difficult to build rapport if you are driven by an agenda that the other party sees as being a threat to their success or security. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. Thank you for sharing.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Leaders need to understand that compassion humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence and loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. It takes far more courage to display love than disinterest, as compassion requires an investment of time, caring, empathy and understanding. I admire this.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

However CEOs that implement a well thought out and clearly articulated vision, create a sense of stability and a bond of trust amongst the ranks. I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But portfolio careers aren’t only for stay-at-home parents looking to freelance a few hours a day while their kids are in school or grad students moonlighting as Uber drivers and Task Rabbits. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. How did he make this unusual career leap? Liane Davey.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. ” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. It may seem innocuous, but that inadvertent myopia can put you at serious professional risk.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? My personal and professional network are far more important to my success than my individual competencies.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Based on four years of global quantitative research, the book explores the tectonic shifts in consumer sentiment that have come about due to extreme technological immersion. This lack of trust extends into the world of technology, as well. In other words, we want the unfiltered, plain, raw, and unedited truth.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan. To be successful in creating social media influence your efforts need to be centered around others. Do this and you’ll be viewed as just another sales broadcast.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. It's just that kind of loss of daily osmotic information exchange and collaborative bonding that ought to concern 21st century employees and employers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As University of Toronto professor Ayelet Shachar explained in a Yale Law Journal article : “Countries seeking to attract Nobel Prize contenders, gifted technology wizards, acclaimed artists, promising Olympians, and other high-demand migrants have come to realize the attractive power of citizenship.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In his new book, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World , veteran Bloomberg technology writer Brad Stone unravels the facts from the mythology surrounding the companies’ rise. It took a while for me to realize that this was a main theme of the book.

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CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

“Part of running a 21st-century company with a 21st-century work force is establishing systems that allow for women to go out and return from maternity leave with minimal impact on the company or on their careers,” says Joan Williams, founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. Lavoie and Marino invented the game six years ago to "make our people feel relevant in a tangible way to the success of the business and tap their amazing intellectual bandwidth far beyond assigned 'job tasks,'" says Lavoie. "We You behave, you stay.'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The wartime challenge demanded better collaboration, greater situational awareness and more strategic application of cutting edge technology for the war-fighter. Or must it be managed to build better bonds and relationships throughout the enterprise? I’ve seen it happen, and careers ended when it did.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Networks matter for career success. With video technology advancing fast, a high-fidelity face-to-face conversation can happen without either of you leaving the office, or your home. So examining non-kid interests, hobbies, and even work can lead to a stronger bond and more reasons to stay connected. Loic Djim/Unsplash.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Morgan, MetLife and Morgan Stanley — piloted re-entry internship programs for professionals returning to work after a career break. Vodafone has led the STEM companies with its Returning to Technology program that began in 2012. They join Goldman Sachs, which has offered such a program since 2008*. (I

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. That’s just 2.1% Employee incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Some Indian companies, recognizing the importance of family, are doing the same: welcoming parents to new employee orientation (a few have even taken it a step further and offer benefits to dependent parents , strengthening the employee bond). Why not invite parents to your employee orientation or onboarding program? Use parents to recruit.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Besides tax-deferral, consider planning strategies that provide you with tax-free income in retirement, such as municipal bonds or Roth IRAs. In fact, now is an especially good time to consider tax diversification, especially in light of the 3.8%

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In reality, Culture does not Trump Strategy, rather they work together to enhance the success of one another. My point was never to trivialize the importance of culture as it is a major key to creating sustainable success in any organization. Said another way: Great businesses are based on a Culture of Success. What say you?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. Why Fed chairmen can’t do research. They are not.

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