Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We were not a Christian business,” writes Robinson, “but rather a business where the owners and leadership aspired to apply and live out biblical principles.” They have resisted the urge to gussie it up, to change it, to get rid of it, or to do the wrong thing with it.”. That’s the power of a clear purpose statement. “We

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it’s your social life, family or career, one thing you can count on is the consistency of change. The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. One of your first leadership lessons is “A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”

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Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 7, 2017

It’s much more efficient to share this information upfront and begin coaching a little further down the road. Resist solving the problem on your own. Instead, take the time to understand their career and development goals and ask for their development goals first. Start with their ideas first before giving yours.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

My business career is characterized with a bunch of David versus Goliath encounters. As long as the “Davids” are able to resist the urge to become generalists by expanding into too many markets with too many products, they can win. They are obsessed with efficiencies and processes. You value doing right things.

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HR Digest

MARCH 22, 2021

This means employers have to now market themselves as viable options where people can build a rewarding career. Companies that have resisted furloughing their employee or cutting jobs have definitely acquired added value to their brands. 65% said they would leave an employer being negatively portrayed in the public or social media.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 7, 2015

When leading with GRIT , you are being called to a higher level of leadership performance that will have the greatest impact on your organization, as well as your own success and happiness in life," Sudbrink concludes. The key to efficient change is either forward, change, and grow or be stagnant, go backward and die.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 30, 2012

By offering such programs, employees are given the opportunity to not only refine and develop their skills in order to be more effective in their roles, but it also encourages them to take the time to evaluate their career goals and come up with ideas of how their organization can help them to achieve them.

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LDRLB

MARCH 12, 2012

My business career is characterized with many David versus Goliath encounters. As long as the “Davids” of the business world are able to resist the urge to become generalists by expanding into too many markets with too many products, they can win. They are obsessed with efficiencies and processes. You value doing right things.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 25, 2014

Aside from its effectiveness and efficiency, feed forward can make life a lot more enjoyable. They tend to resist negative judgment. Feed forward tends to be much faster and more efficient than feedback. This can lead to very negative – or even career-limiting – unintended consequences when applied to managers or peers.

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LDRLB

MARCH 12, 2012

My business career is characterized with many David versus Goliath encounters. As long as the “Davids” of the business world are able to resist the urge to become generalists by expanding into too many markets with too many products, they can win. They are obsessed with efficiencies and processes. You value doing right things.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Resisting change. The best project managers and teams know how to adapt to this efficiently. Planning will increase efficiency considerably, and there will be a much better chance of meeting the expectations of the stakeholders. Yes, no one wants to make changes to a project halfway through it. Projects change all of the time.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 23, 2016

When people who have a stake in an issue get left out of the decision, they feel slighted and become resistant to change. Successful decisions engage stakeholders effectively and efficiently. “We don’t have time (or interest) to involve everyone with a stake in the decision.”.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

What distinguishes members of one group from another rarely has anything to do with intellect, wealth, social pedigree, career standing, or other like pursuits…It has everything to do with desire. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

They moved with the most efficient best practice as they unfold. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan. Being questioned by people resistant to change is not out of the ordinary, and nothing to be concerned about. It was not a Caterpillar, Goodyear or US Steel.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. They had no career consequences — no one outside of HR, not even managers’ bosses, saw them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

As adults, we are much more interested in preserving what we learned, to the point of resisting any information — and data — that challenges our views and opinions. The main career consequence of this is that knowledge and expertise have been devalued. Ironically, a surplus of information can create a poverty of knowledge.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

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. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2012

Expected Results of an Institutional Review: Your service is efficient and excellent, by your standards and by the publics. You provide leadership for progress, rather than following along. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and initiative. Your staff is likeable and competent. He has advised two U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But these three things can help ease your transition: one-on-one meetings with individuals, a team planning session, and swift intervention with resistant individuals. ” “Tell me about your development planning and any career conversations you have been having.” Those two steps will get you off to a good start.

Management 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. In China, however, workers equated speed with efficiency. For example, the efficiency lens in China led to an adoption of the practice that was out of line with the goals of the innovation center to be more agile and iterative. leadership. You and Your Team Series.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Your career depended on that business going forward, and the numbers that mattered had to do with the performance of that business, not with Sony as a whole. Given that some of these problems are rooted in people’s tendency to resist change, do newer firms have an advantage when it comes to creating the best new business models?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Think of a moment in which your own failures led to success in your career, or a lesson that a parent or mentor imparted,” says Sachs. A change-resistant industry that needs to be transformed? Practice with friends, loved ones, and trusted colleagues to hone your message into the most effective and efficient story.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

While virtually all pharma companies say they encourage risk, in reality the failure of individual drug-development programs frequently results in career damage or even job loss for the research teams involved. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Just over a year ago, I talked with the executive vice president of HR for a Fortune 100 company about Joe,* a member of the senior leadership team: “Joe has good ideas, but he’s really negative, and he always plays the devil’s advocate. Opposition is necessary, but people typically don’t like it and resist it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

Here are the seven C-level skills and traits companies prize most: Leadership. The skills cited as most indispensable for C-level executives—not just CEOs—are those that jointly constitute leadership. Ethical leadership was also mentioned. Strategic thinking and execution.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability. That is leadership. The Digital Disconnect. But open source only crossed the chasm once its champions came of age.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Listen… Before you react to the news, Spreitzer suggests you “listen carefully to what senior leadership is saying about what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what’s the hoped-for outcome.” ’” Showing compassion is not only kind it’s also a smart career move, according to Coyne.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. The workforce is comprised of career professionals who are deep experts in their craft. They often came to the Intelligence Community early in their careers and stayed. He had deep knowledge and credibility.

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