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Hey Leaders – What’s Your Relationship Status?

Talent Anarchy 1

I have never, in my 23-year career, heard of a team who has “too much” communication, or from a team who believed the communication was “too good.” Provided I care, demonstrate courage, earn trust, communicate and invest in it, my relationship will strengthen and be a positive influence in my life. Communication.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S.

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You Don’t Need a Promotion to Grow at Work

Harvard Business Review

As organizations run leaner and flatter, your ability to move up can stall much earlier in your career because, simply put, there’s no place to go. So what should you do when you reach that plateau and you’re only midway through your career? By expanding her influence outside the organization, she gained credibility within.

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The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. And they are more likely to have their ideas endorsed.

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Why So Many Millennials Aren’t Into Protest Movements

Harvard Business Review

Conscious movements provide Millennials with all three elements—to give back an issue they care deeply about, to connect with peers and to build their careers, all at the same time. A good example here is Lean In, a conscious movement launched by Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer.

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

We began by discussing our life stories, the early events in our lives that helped shape and influence us. They gave me the encouragement to go back to Medtronic, where I had turned down three times the opportunity to become president and chief operating officer.

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Is the Confidence Gap Between Men and Women a Myth?

Harvard Business Review

How working women are kept from positions of influence and power is by now well-documented by scientists and journalists alike. ” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.”