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Managing Change Through The Reinvention Continuum

Lead Change Blog

Economic uncertainty, industry change, personal evolution—there are many reasons we–or those we know—decide to pursue career reinvention. Before I can explain The Reinvention Continuum, I need to first address the difference between career reinvention and mere change or adaptation. I have named this sequence, The Reinvention Continuum.

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7 Professional Development Goals To Set Today

Strategy Driven

No matter what career you set your mind to, you’ll have to create a set of professional development goals, so that you stay on top of your game. Try the acronym SMART to figure out your objectives, and learn to reach them: Specific: Your goal must be clear and specific, and it’s what you want to accomplish. Start With An End Goal.

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Is Your Business a Commodity or a Resource?

Strategy Driven

If you simply agree to help implement the client’s preconceived solution, you are not helping the client or your career. Instead, you must bring your own expertise, objectivity, and outside perspective to the table. You must help the client go back and address the real challenges, some of which they are too immersed in to identify.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Companies don’t want to “waste their time” on someone who “can’t decide without talking to their spouse” because the objection they use is, “I’m going to talk this over with my…” The bottom line is that company is rude, stupid, and will lose people (just like they lost you).

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

When Toby Johnson was 24 years old, the Army pilot was in charge of eight $30 million Apache helicopters, plus the 30 people who managed them — more responsibility than any of her friends in the private sector. Transitioning from a military career to the corporate world can be a fraught process for the nearly 360,000 U.S.

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Doing 'Different' Right: Ten Big-Time Difference Makers and How.

Strategy Driven

So how exactly does a small firm with only 20 employees manage to make millions every year without offering prices much lower than their competitors? They don’t advertise or employ salespeople – yet they manage to make millions of dollars selling their products. It’s simple: They hire the right people.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives.