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Preview Thursday: Up is Not the Only Way by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart

Lead Change Blog

The following post is a preview excerpt from “ Up is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility ” by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart, with permission from Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2017). Careers used to be predictable. Careers today happen in that world–a world that continues to change.

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Why You Should Let Employees Personalize Their Job Descriptions

Harvard Business Review

Although concerned leaders try to address this problem in many ways — teamwork exercises, mentorship, perks, innovative office spaces, and incentive programs — their solutions miss a simple but pivotal point: Employees are engaged by engaging jobs. Ask the person to describe themselves and their career, and listen closely.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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How CEOs Can Keep Their Analytics Programs from Being a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. High-achieving executives have been shaped by the pivotal experiences of their careers, yet analytics requires executives to think beyond these mental models.

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Build a Great Company Culture with Help from Technology

Harvard Business Review

For us, those values are employees, customer service, integrity, innovation, fun, and profitability. We are certain that our high customer satisfaction ratings and top spot on many best-place-to-work lists come from our early recognition that culture permeates every sales call, every employee interaction, and every product innovation.

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Six Classes Your Employer Wishes You Could Take

Harvard Business Review

The ability to immerse oneself in terabytes of data, identify (individually or collaboratively) what''s most important and restructure it in an accessible, meaningful and usable form for a variety of audiences will increasingly be an essential skill. The kitchen can and should be a laboratory for innovation. What makes a toaster toast?

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A Guide to Winning Support for Your New Idea or Project

Harvard Business Review

“Organizations need to keep changing, adapting, and innovating,” he says. The ability to get new initiatives off the ground is also critical to your career. Your colleagues are more likely to respond to specific initiatives rather than lofty, ambiguous goals. “If they don’t, they stagnate and disappear.”