Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking. You asked for a sample goal.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2023

Since then, Magnuson has provided his leadership insights multiple times for my blog and in 2020, I named his book, Stand Out! , as the best new leadership and business book for that year. I’m a big fan of Magnuson’s work and have enjoyed following his ever-growing career during the past decade. Any plans to write another book?

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I recently spoke with Stan, thought leader, columnist, and business leader about his new book Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success. The title of your book is Be Different! These leaders never micro-manage. Toxic people are good at managing up, so their behavior may not be transparent to their boss.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

At the epicenter of their multiple best-selling books, assessments and workshops, lies a simple premise: “Leaders are made … and not born.”. This transition is one most of us made early in our careers. When I became a manager, I had a senior engineer that worked for me submit a project plan. It was simple.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Shook has created the engine known for attracting, developing and retaining great talent who enjoy Accenture’s collaborative, innovative, and highly diverse culture.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 21, 2017

As founder and CEO of Lead From Within, her proprietary leadership program is engineered to be a catalyst for leaders who want to enhance performance and make a meaningful difference in their companies, their lives, and the world. Lolly was designated a Top-50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc. 9:58 What is a leader?

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 4, 2017

Many (many) years ago at the beginning of my management career, my new boss asked (no, ordered) me to read the book “ The Peter Principle ”, by Laurence J. It was enlightening to read more about the famous quote from the book: “ Everyone rises to their level of incompetence ”.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Off Balance: High IQ Leaders Often Have Lower EQ Many of our audience and workshop participants are STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) specialists who have been promoted to management positions because of their technical expertise. The book is highly readable in bite-sized pieces.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

Building and maintaining physical infrastructure requires a certain kind of know-how, which we call engineering. Ethical dilemmas are at least as hard to resolve as engineering problems, and at least as urgent, particularly in our complex and fast-moving world. The field that provides this kind of know-how is called ethics.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The book is full of principles that if they can’t be implemented outright in your own workplace, they can by degrees. You won’t find debates about social issues, but then that’s not what this book is about. It about managing smart creatives in a family-type atmosphere. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

We have cultivated a unique culture and management approach that we call the Hacker Way. At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training. Facebook is one example of such a business. In that sense, everyone is equal.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2019

Too often senior leaders “manage by announcements,” publishing a set of expectations or rules that they declare are to be embraced from that moment forward, yet they do not actively demonstrate those expectations themselves, measure how well others embrace those expectations, etc.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

From how I was raised through my education and my career at Bell Labs and AT&T, I never felt any gender bias. In June 2013, Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya invited women to crowd-create a book on women innovators by sharing their own stories. Freshman Engineers designing radial keyboard for the communication impaired (e.g.,

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

People in task-oriented jobs, including physicians, lawyers and engineers, are vulnerable to loneliness. I switched careers and co-founded a company to focus on the issue of culture and its effect on employees and performance. Managers also must learn what culture is in a way that makes it simple, memorable and actionable.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

How do you manage competing values? After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 23, 2017

Over time, I’ve learned to manage my anxiety and turn it into an engine that propels me forward. Order the book by Deborah Shames Out Front: How Women Can Become Engaging, Memorable, and Fearless Speakers. The post Overcome speaker anxiety to become a fearless and engaging speaker appeared first on Career Advancement Blog.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 22, 2014

Business executives, policy makers, healthcare insurers and hospital administrators, engineers and others in power are far more likely to underestimate the time required to complete work, ignoring past experience, according to four recent behavioral experiments by researchers at the University of Kent at Canterbury, in the U.K.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

As you embrace proactive relationship management, pay close attention to my “big three” – engagement, service, and results. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Third, evaluate the progress of employee engagement, service, and results.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Those are findings from a survey of 30,000 graduates of all ages conducted by Gallup with Purdue University that compared four large categories of majors: business; social sciences and education; sciences and engineering; and arts and humanities. That honor falls to science and engineering graduates. Women and Time Management. . .

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do. ” Many tech firms are succeeding — for now.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Mary Schaefer , a coach, trainer, consultant and speaker who helps develop a culture of engagement and empowerment with tech managers and employees. in Human Resource Management from the University of Charleston. Mary has a B.S. in Computer Science from Indiana State University and an M.S.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Set aside any personal angst you may have about presenting and public speaking and follow these 7 strategies to take your career to the next level. The aboriginal tipi is an amazing feat of indigenous engineering. Read a few passages from your favourite book in as many different ways as you can. Lose the ‘crystal ball’.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Do you manage your company’s reputation? Why is it important to manage your reputation? Lida Citroen , an expert in the field of reputation management, has a resource to anyone who wants tips to build a reputation that can withstand negative influences and becomes stronger over time. Do you consider your personal brand ?

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. A Fellow of the American Society for Quality Control and certified quality engineer, he published multiple books and more than 20 papers on management quality. Latzko, Ph.D.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In addition to improving existing programs and practices, the effort led to a dedicated diversity talent acquisition team and greater HBCU and HSI partnerships, a sponsorship program to support career advancement, and other programs.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

The truth is that many change-management efforts fail simply because the vital human component is underappreciated, when in fact it is at the heart of change. The enemy is poor management of change.” This post is an excerpt from his excellent, internationally bestselling book CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Change is not the enemy.

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Cooperperson

MARCH 6, 2022

Whether it is networking in large groups to build your book of customers, or networking within your office to help nab that promotion, being able to clearly and comfortably communicate with other professionals is an important skill to develop. Networking in business is a key factor to being successful. This makes for poor networking.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

Sales reps were trained in their products and how to sell them, scientists went to conferences, engineers were offered continued training to keep their skills up to date, and new managers were trained how to manage. This company had a proud tradition of investing in the development of its employees. But so is training.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Rick Lindquist Millennial Rick Lindquist is making his mark in the business world and enjoying the success of his co-authored 2014 bestseller book, The End of Employer-Provided Health Insurance. Today, he kindly answered questions about leadership, mentors, his book, and Millennials in the workplace. Why or why not? Good advice.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2012

A colleague from another business school recommended the book, The Future of Leadership Development, Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools , edited by IESE Business School Dean Jordi Canals. The idea is that leadership development needs are very different depending on your age and where you are in your career.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 12, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 This Is ‘Out Of The Box’ Thinking. Apple engineer rebuilds an ancient Greek mechanism — the oldest known computer – known as The Antikythera Mechanism.

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Change Starts Here

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I love to hear the stories of how each one came to the change management profession. Already focused on the people side of the business, they are able to transition their career from the transactional work towards the transformational. Others begin their careers working in business operations. What’s your story?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2012

But developing that talent takes serious work, both from employees and their managers—just like the thousands of hours my friend put in every day after school, along with the encouragement and instruction from his dad and his coach. It's far too easy for managers to only give feedback during performance reviews or to offer vague platitudes.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Part-time jobs are becoming more common these days, especially for millennials who want to earn some extra cash or build their career. Many companies hire writers to create content for search engine optimization (SEO), blog posts, press releases, etc. Social Media Manager. What is a part-time job? Freelance Writer.

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