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You Don’t Have to Choose Between Your Career and Your Relationship

Women on Business

Guest post by Susie Collins (learn more about Susie at the end of this post). There are a growing number of career opportunities for women these days. Women are CEOs, teachers, doctors, managers, chefs, legislators and more. It is exciting to grow a career in a field that you are passionate about. It continues today.

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Leadership and Management Book Talk—Our Favorite Little-Known Reads

Art Petty

Wally Bock and Art Petty connect to talk about their favorite, unknown books on this latest episode of the Leadership and Management Book Talk podcast. The post Leadership and Management Book Talk—Our Favorite Little-Known Reads appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Leaders don’t create more followers. They create more leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

Instead of pulling others up, many managers choose to push people down. The corporate world is littered with managers but lack leaders. Over the course of may career, I only had one manager who was a leader. It is a rare individual who excels in both managing and leading. Your most valuable asset is your people.

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43 Best Leadership Books to Skyrocket Your Career

Miles Anthony Smith

Do Leadership Books Really Help Advance Your Life and Career? Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? shares the secrets to how executives and managers can become the leaders their company needs.

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High Performing Employees

Career Advancement

Jim Collins~. Arthur, a manager at a mid-size firm, read a troubling statistic: According to Harvard Business Review, one in five high-performing employees plans to leave their job in the next six months. Thorough onboarding greatly improves retention , according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

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The Biggest Mistake NEW Leaders Make

Let's Grow Leaders

Ian McAllister, General Manager at Amazon, reports that one of his greatest challenges as a new manager was thinking too small. According to Jim Collins, author of “Good To Great,” truly great leaders are ambitious for their organizations, rather than seeking personal celebrity. 2- Failure to focus on strategy.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? Blog Post ). How did you react?

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