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8 Reasons Your Peers Rate You Low on Your 360 Feedback Assessment

Let's Grow Leaders

Effective peer relationships are one of the consistent predictors of career advancement. . Today’s hypercompetitive economy has created tense, overextended workplaces. No one knows quite what is going on. If you don’t know where you stand with your peers, it’s worth asking. Now Available For Pre-Order (click here).

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Five Happiness Traps

Leading Blog

Second, hypercompetitiveness in the workplace leaves us empty and unfulfilled, hurts our ability to lead effectively, and makes us no fun to be around. Which of the happiness traps keep me from pursuing my dreams for a better job, a great career, or real fulfillment in the job I have now? Which happiness traps do I keep others in?

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When is it OK NOT to Develop? Hint: Never.

Great Leadership By Dan

In today’s hypercompetitive, white-water, VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) business environment, if you are not growing you are dying. Probably not. Standing still is not an option. Continuous improvement is a business imperative, and quite frankly, a condition of employment.

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Write a Failure Resume to Learn What Makes You Succeed

Harvard Business Review

. “Often, other scientists’ careers seem to be a constant, streamlined series of triumphs. Therefore, whenever we experience an individual failure, we feel alone and dejected.” ” What a healthy dose of common sense — and a refreshing blast of honesty.

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Harvard Business Review

Many employees are encouraged to “just be yourself,” only to find their authenticity — and their career ambitions — constrained by unwritten office rules about appearance, speech, and behavior. Is assimilation a smart career strategy or a sellout, a compromise to your authenticity or just a compromise?

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How to Gain Credibility When You Have Little Experience

Harvard Business Review

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. Here are five common activities that you can do as a young professional to jump-start your career and catalyze your leadership trajectory. Leverage your research skills. What would that be?

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