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Three Ways to Overcome Career Anxiety

Harvard Business Review

In the course of writing Passion & Purpose , I was fortunate enough to meet and interview hundreds of young leaders, many of them "rockstar" twenty-somethings who command high six-figure salaries, are in stable relationships, and have all the career options in the world. Gone are the days where working for LargeCo meant a career for life.

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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

The financial risk of a career in entrepreneurship is the chance of spending 20 years in startups with nothing to show for it — neither money nor an impact on the world. In financial terms, focuses expertise is a call option on other careers, and it increases your chance of startup success, to boot.

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Millennials Say They’ll Relocate for Work-Life Flexibility

Harvard Business Review

But they worry about “flexibility stigma”—the likelihood that they’ll be labeled less than fully committed to work if they avail themselves of arrangements like flex time and paternity leave — and as a result suffer negative job and career consequences. For the U.S. This is the flexibility stigma at work.)

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

3) Lack of commitment. Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. Christensen. The five dysfunctions are: 1) Absence of trust.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

” Prior to starting any engagement, clients should approve a statement of work and commit to paying the “fees” for the internal consulting team out of their budgets. ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Exceed client expectations.

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The Graduation Advice We Wish We'd Been Given

Harvard Business Review

In a world of layoffs, outsourcing, and industry disruption, the only "career insurance" you can get is through figuring out the answer to one particular question: how can you make yourself truly valuable professionally? But those paths, the ones you learned about in your career offices aren''t the only ones afforded to you.

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