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Mindfulness and Focusing on What Matters

Lead Change Blog

It’s part and parcel of the job, and something you’ll simply have to accept when you follow this particular career path. Wrapping up. A leader who can listen properly will go very far indeed. You’ll let go of stress. I’m under no illusion: with leadership comes stress. I’m a big fan of mindfulness.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence.

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Interns to the Rescue! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

By Susan Gunelius Guest post by Abby Marks Beale (learn more about Abby at the end of this post) As a solo entrepreneur, I have learned to spend my time on those things I major in (activities I am good at and like to do) while parceling out the things I minor in (tasks I am not good at or don’t enjoy) to those who have the expertise (and interest!).

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Unleash The Power of a Leadership Mindset: How to Develop and Cultivate It

Experience to Lead

Simply having an idea or plan and pushing it onto other team members and expecting them to follow just isn’t going to cut it. Resilience and adaptability became part and parcel of what many businesses had to do during the pandemic. Not Celebrating Success Too often, we get caught up in the grind of our work lives.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself. This is when the patterns generations old of being a pleaser or martyr show up. In the following video you can get a sense of why it is so hard to change behavior.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand. When you are handed a business card that was printed at Kinko’s are you impressed? I Think Not.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline.

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