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Brilliant Careers Are Built With Bold Moves

Eric Jacobson

She encourages women to treat their career like an investment portfolio with early deposits of bold moves, courageous actions, and informed risk. One thing I know for certain that I wish to impart to you: Brilliant careers are seldom built without bold moves ,” says Hunter Arscott. Instead of asking: “How do I balance?”

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Mastering A Career Change After 50

HR Digest

The lessons in the film about talent and ageism are quite real. To put it bluntly, we still live in a world where you’ll face hurdles if you’re looking to start a new career or reboot an old one. So what all is needed to make a career switch at 50? Before you change careers after 50, read this.

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What a Mechanical Shark Can Teach Us About Leadership and Innovation

Leading Blog

But this wasn’t the film itself. It was a documentary on the making of the movie, all about the lengths that then 27-year-old wunderkind Steven Spielberg and his crew went to in creating a film that would define the summer blockbuster. The scene is famous for the way it terrified audiences without ever showing the titular shark.

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Leadership Strategies: Are You a Davos Woman?

Women on Business

One quick note, at our past WELL programs we have used clips from the film “Mona Lisa’s Smile” to get deeper discussions going. Related posts: Leadership Strategies: 3 Rules for Ruling your Business All entrepreneurs are smart and quick, and love taking risks. You may want to watch this and then give your imagination wings.

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Lifestorming: Creating the Life You Want

Leading Blog

Lifestorming: Creating Meaning and Achievement in Your Career and Life presents life as a journey without a “there.” When thinking about change, our strategy needs to be not to change poor behavior but to replace it. It’s important to remember too, that “we aren’t in a snapshot; we’re part of a film. Replace Poor Behaviors.

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The Big Picture of Business- Flip Sides, Second Acts and Successful Careers

Strategy Driven

It used to be said that people have three careers in them. Bacharach started his music writing career by taking 'work for hire,' tailoring songs to particular performers. We benefit from going back and learning from our own early Body of Work, assuming that we stratregized our career to be a long-term thing, as Burt Bacharach did.

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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

Great Leadership By Dan

For example I have a growth mindset about my career but I have a fixed mindset about the upsides of parachuting from a perfectly flyable aeroplane! My explanation is this – having a growth mindset means: I believe with the right strategy, effort, coaching and persistence I can achieve whatever is important to me.

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