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After the layoff: How to support your team when it just got smaller

Let's Grow Leaders

My LinkedIn feed and email inbox are filled with news of layoffs and reorganizations causing unexpected career turbulence. There was one dark point in my career when I received a call once a quarter for two years, giving me my Reduction in Force (RIF) numbers. Incubator Guide. . Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal.

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The Mindset Every Leader Needs to Infuse into Their Company Right Now

Lead Change Blog

Successful leaders are not “just lucky”, even when their career may have some seemingly coincidental moments. A serendipity mindset is an incubator for ideas, opportunities, and success. In reality, successful leaders have laid the foundation to spot and act on opportunities and turn them into “smart” luck.

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Share Your Ideas: Practical Ways to Ensure Your Voice is Heard

Let's Grow Leaders

Think back on your career. You can learn more about this process by downloading our free Idea Incubator Guide. .” It’s human nature to remember a negative experience you had speaking up more than a positive one. What would you describe as your biggest moments of courage? Own the U.G.L.Y. U- What are we Underestimating?

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Starting Your Own Business

Strategy Driven

Are you ready to turn your career into a 24/7 lifestyle? When you eat, sleep, and breathe your career, time becomes a lot more valuable. Take the appropriate steps to prepare yourself mentally and financially for this new trajectory in your career. If the answer is yes, then shoot for the stars. Say goodbye to your 9-5.

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Entrepreneurship Skills Can Last A Lifetime

The Horizons Tracker

. “Entrepreneurship is a key skill for new graduates entering the job market today, and more and more corporations are setting up corporate venturing and internal incubators to support innovation, so this is hugely valuable, even if they don’t build a startup.”

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Why You Should Bring a Startup Founder Mindset To Your Leadership

Terry Starbucker

When I moved here to Portland in 2010 I wasn’t really looking for those folks – I had just gotten out of a long-time corporate career, mostly in the Cable TV business, and was looking to settle into a nice business/leadership consulting practice whilst I kept writing my blog and my book.

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The Delicate Art Of Persuading Your Boss

Tanveer Naseer

Be a bobble head and nod in agreement– after all, push-back could hurt your career. Your best incubator for convincing is a quiet private setting. There’s the camp that would say back down, after all that’s why she get’s paid the “big bucks.” Sadly, I’ve seen such fear-based agreement happen at all levels of the business.

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