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How Sabbaticals Help Our Careers

The Horizons Tracker

A survey conducted by the recruitment platform Applied last year revealed that while around a third of employees had taken a career break of six months or more, the majority felt reluctant about disclosing that fact to potential employers during the recruitment process. What’s more, this figure rose to over 75% among executives.

Career 97
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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

More often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural norms and the adoption of new technologies that make it easy to tether people to work. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes.

Books 272
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First Look: Leadership Books for September 2020

Leading Blog

To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't. Kilimanjaro and spent more than a decade traveling the world. The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. She went on to reach the summits of Mt. Rainier and Mt.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

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.

Career 74
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5 Critical Skills You Will Need to Hit the Ground Running After College

Leading Blog

Selingo has distilled a lot of wisdom into five often overlapping skills needed to succeed in your career and life. The book provides much more detail and practical advice for career and life on many fronts and well worth making them time to consider. The recent graduates who succeed in their careers are flexible about how they learn.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. This journey isn’t an easy one.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

Don’t you wish you had a GPS for your life and career? Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals.