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The 5 Smartest Strategies to Build Influence in the Workplace

Career Advancement

Successful influencers cultivate alliances with people across the company who are in positions of leadership or who have strong social capital. Higher-ups as well as people they supervise come to them for advice and ideas. Your allies will help support your ideas and accomplish the tasks that have been deemed important.

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March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Julie Winkle Giulioni contributed Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Time Management Strategies & Prioritizing. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Time Management Strategies & Prioritizing. Try These 2 Things. What was he to do?

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Exploiting Beauty in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

Hakim argues that while we have no problem exploiting our other advantages — money (economic capital), intelligence and education (human capital), and contacts (social capital), women especially still shirk from using erotic capital. Why should that be? So how complicit are we in all this?