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When Grit Isn’t Enough: Protection from Burnout and Suicide

Michael Lee Stallard

It happened during a period earlier in his career when his leadership responsibilities increased while fewer colleagues were available to help carry the load. Although he prided himself on being able to solve problems, he couldn’t see a way to address the people shortage given financial constraints facing the hospital. And I did.

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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

QAspire

That’s because aspiration for growth, unlike career paths (ladders), may not always be linear. Consider this story from my own experience: Jay was bright software engineer who was stuck in maintaining a legacy product for over 5 years. That day, Jay wanted to explore the ways he can grow in his career.

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Values in Dynamic Tension

Great Leadership By Dan

Reality , time constraints, emergencies, etc. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior.

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Are Ph.Ds Turning Their Back On Entrepreneurship?

The Horizons Tracker

The paper shows that the rate of startup formation has been on the decline for companies run by PhDs in science and engineering since 1997, which is particularly worrying as this group is regarded as crucial in transferring knowledge from lab to market. ” Declining fortunes. .” ” Declining fortunes.

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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

They believe that their findings add additional nuance to the current narrative that suggests that the decline in entrepreneurship is largely a consequence of higher startup costs, labor constraints, or even the aging population. This underlines the decline in entrepreneurship in medicine, for instance, with just 31.4% in 2012.

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Someone = Us!

Mills Scofield

What was a ‘job shop’ is now a high-tech and biomedical design and engineering company with rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing up to full-scale injection molding capabilities. Lesson : Don’t use a company and management’s age as artificial constraints for innovation. What drove this level of risk?