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Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career

Harvard Business Review

As our lives and marketplaces change all too rapidly, past career decisions can become obsolete or even dangerous to our wellbeing. With the experience of your first career to draw on, you should know what you enjoy and what you could learn to do. You and Your Team Series. Career Transitions. But be careful.

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5 Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Advantage

Skip Prichard

Over 20 years, we looked at the difference between leadership teams that successfully “moved the needle” on the culture and those that didn’t. As many big organizations very deliberately move to more agile ways of working, leaders are finding that the controlling tendencies that helped bring them this far in their careers are less useful now.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. So understanding what constitutes effective followership and then exhibiting those behaviors can help improve a person’s career prospects.

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Are You Too Afraid to Succeed?

Harvard Business Review

Recruited by a pharmaceutical firm he rose quickly through the ranks, joining the executive team in record time. With nowhere further to go, he revealed the inadequacy he had been so anxious to conceal, perversely sabotaging his own career in order to fulfill his belief that he wasn’t up to the top job.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) With your permission I will teach these concepts to my creative team. via n2growth.com [.] Keep up the good work.

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