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How to Solve Our Wild Problems

Leading Blog

The big decisions in life, what Russ Roberts calls Wild Problems — whether to marry, who to marry, what career path to follow, ethical dilemmas — “can’t be made with data, or science, or the usual rational approaches.”. In 1838, Charles Darwin faced a wild problem. So what do we do when faced with a wild problem?

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Cognitive Reappraisal for Wild Success

Leading Blog

Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. I want to focus on a critical, but often difficult skill that we all need to develop: cognitive reappraisal. It looks like his career is over. They doubt they can save his leg.

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Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies

Let's Grow Leaders

In this podcast episode, Andre Martin discusses the importance of finding the right fit in your career and building a culture that supports employee motivation, engagement, and satisfaction. He emphasizes the need to reflect on values, goals, and ideal work environment before making career decisions.

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8 Conflicting Habits of Wildly Successful People

Lead from Within

To achieve your own wild success, you need to understand how they all fit together. ” As you work to develop your own style of leadership and success, learn to embrace your own contradictions and let them add depth and texture to everything you do. We know there are certain habits that the most successful people tend to share.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

I’m not trying to downplay the incredible success these people have achieved, but I believe everyone is capable of being a visionary — you just need to develop the skills to identify the vision and then bring it to reality. That sets a high bar for the practice of visionary thinking.

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October 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the October 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Development. Willy Steiner of Executive Coaching Concepts provided The Importance of GRIT – My Recent Adventure in the Wild. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted 4 Ways to Break Career Stagnation. Development.

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New Tool Offers Possible Career Alternatives For Those Threatened By Automation

The Horizons Tracker

What is perhaps most interesting, however, is that they also examine how one might transition from a career that is at risk to one where the chances of automation are less severe (and indeed require the smallest amount of training to make the transition). ” Likely impact. Put to the test.

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