Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

His goal is to “teach you how to be both the boss everyone wants to work for and the high achiever every CEO wants to hire—all without drama, stress, or endless hours in the office.”. Close Your Open-Door Policy. Kruse stresses leading by example—taking responsibility for the change you want to see. “If Here they are: 1.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 21, 2013

The New York Times calls her “one of the smartest, sophisticated thinkers” and Mashable lists her as 1 of the Top 14 Career Experts on Twitter. I urge you to read her post and buy her book. It was a difficult and stressful period. Personally, Cali has helped me achieve work+life fit!

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

And, on BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme (from 37:50; available until end of May), she stressed the importance of essential leadership behaviours such as transparency, humility and active listening in rebuilding trust within an organisation. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 24, 2017

When Costco opened a location in our area, my wife and I became members. I’ve spoken with Jim Sinegal, Costco’s co-founder and CEO from 1983 to 2011, and interacted with Ryan Watkins, a young Costco warehouse manager across the country in Oregon. Costco provides career opportunities for its employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2019

Guest post from Dianna Booher: A reporter for Newsday called recently for a comment about his story on executive stress and the connection to email. Turn Off Email Alerts or Disable Automatic Retrieval In the UNC survey, 55 percent of the participants said they keep their email open either always (37 percent) or most of the time (18 percent).

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This is true in all industries, and Nicole Olver’s career has given her the opportunity to both listen to and empathize with employees in a range of contexts. By prioritizing people management, company leaders can anticipate workplace issues and set themselves up for long-term success.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 15, 2020

Some startling leadership statistics: 75% of employees report their boss is the worst and most stressful part of their job. Ryan Gottfredson’s new book, Success Mindsets , tackles these problems by focusing on the leadership mindset. Study: 75% of employees report their boss is the worst and most stressful part of their job.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

Typically, it is the opening question in a conversation to assess how you are really doing. Practicing medicine these days is stressful. Still, knowing what we do about the impact of stress, we’re concerned for all those who run the risk of lacking sufficient social connections to maintain good health for themselves.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Julie Winkle Giulioni contributed Want Employees to Own Their Career Development? Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Time Management Strategies & Prioritizing. Time-management strategies like these ones can relieve a lot of their stress.” Try These 2 Things. What was he to do?

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The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Despite working 50 hours and more per week (with an increasing amount of weekend work to “catch up”), it felt like his career wasn’t going anywhere. Brian felt that unreasonable customers, managers, and co-workers were speeding up his hamster wheel just to stay in place.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: By the end of the nine months, one-third of the staff had repetitive stress injuries. Encourage self-expression and diversity of thought.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Don’t Manage Time, Manage Your Values, Priorities, & Habits. Let’s Get Started.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Tips to Radiate Executive Presence on Video Conference Calls. Marcella considers: “ Engage – travel guide for change adventurers, is a great book for anyone looking at organizational change. Steve writes: “ You have a hard to fill open position at your job.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 27, 2010

It’s not worth stressing over if it gets in the way of developing the great relationships you need to get work done well. Striving and resisting causes stress and makes us focus on ourselves instead of others. It relieves stress and allows us to be more open to others. This stuff is just stuff.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Marshall, a communication expert who helps organizations build stronger teams, manage conflict, create stronger more effective messages and deliver better presentations, has written " Smart Talk.". And even people with excellent communication skills sometimes retreat when faced with stressful or sensitive communication issues.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For those who have not yet read your fascinating book, would you explain elephants and unicorns in organizations? Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. It’s human nature.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 23, 2015

Tens of thousands of new leaders are promoted into jobs managing people for the first time every year. The book covers a number of topics: . The authors help those considering leadership positions make the right career choices. Managing Transitions. Byham, Ph.D. and Richard S. Wellins, Ph.D. Leadership is a Choice.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 10, 2018

Self-motivated individuals like entrepreneurs, business leaders, sales reps, coaches, teachers, parents, speakers, and managers, need these peak performance strategies to take their careers and business to productive heights. The relaxation allows for the easy and stress-free execution of any task or goal.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 10, 2016

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Numerous times during my high-pressure career as a broadcast journalist, I worked with people who were extremely toxic and had no bones about spreading their negative mood around. Positive Engagement measures your response in the face of stressful situations. In other words, this measures your story about stress.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 21, 2015

O''Connell recognize the value of great mentors in their new book, " 9 POWERFUL OF REALLY GREAT MENTORS: How to Inspire and Motivate Anyone ," through a set of proven techniques for those who serve as mentors in the workplace. Mentors must engender an ongoing and open exploration of the protégé''s self-awareness. Authors Stephen E.

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HR Digest

JUNE 26, 2023

Are you feeling stressed at work? Work-related stress is a common problem, but it doesn’t have to be your downfall. We have six powerful stress-relief techniques that can help you handle stress at work and feel better. Read on to discover transformative techniques that can help you how to handle stress at work.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Open Up Communication: I Hate My Job What Should I Do? In another survey by Gallup , it was reported that managers can account for up to 70 percent of the variance in team engagement. This will give you some insight into whether there is something you can try before approaching your manager.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

After buckets of red ink and much soul searching, our young management team came to terms with the fact that Nabob could not survive as a ‘generalist’ against multi-nationals twenty times its size. Tough sacrifices rob you of sleep, sober your disposition, heighten your stress, and choke your patience on the littlest things in life.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

I’m pleased to present another chapter from my “More Human” book manuscript. So, instead of taking on the pile that was on my desk, that day I decided to tidy up some of my history files – files I had kept over the course of my career for one reason or another in the back of a file cabinet.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Control stress. The best leaders are great risk takers, because they are open for opportunity. To embrace failure means you’re open to risk and willing to find lessons in mistakes. If you work in an office, leave your door open. Be open to the opinions of others. Accept criticism. Keep your focus.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Home is a sanctuary from work stress, right? Even if you are able to leave your projects and worries at the office, your spouse may have difficulty doing so — and that stress can rub off on you. Dealing with stress is a fact of working life. ” Stress endurance is not a competition. N Farnon/Getty Images.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2017

We cannot open a newspaper, turn on our computer, or flip through our feeds, before we find that someone has lied about something. When things are bad or difficult or stressful, our initial reaction is to hide and withhold. Learn more about the TRUTH TELLER in my new book: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book. One example from my latest book, Ruthless Focus, is Staples.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

We did it because we knew we that we were ‘in the right,’ so to speak—that we had the skills, the knowledge, and the passion necessary for opening up an online retail business. Here, we believed that we had what could be the avant-garde shopping experience and an answer to the stress that some people have of ‘shopping the unknown.’

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

New research, especially the work of Dan Ariely , whose book “ Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions ”, delves into the behavioral aspects of why we buy , or hoard , or share ; how we decide what we prefer and how money shapes relationships.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2019

Being a business owner is a very rewarding career but also takes a certain kind of person and talent to be successful. It’s in your best interest to always be aware of what money you have and that your books are accurate if you’re going to run a profitable business. Providing Excellent Customer Service. Being Fully Dedicated.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Then, of course, we had the fascinating story of Jet Blue flight attendant Stephen Slater pulling the metaphorical rip cord on his 20 year career. One is that, until this week, Slater had an exemplary career with Jet Blue. But first, a recap. (A I can’t stop reading about this story – there are so many layers to it.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. Employers must be concerned about the stress levels of their work force as it can have a damaging impact on employee productivity. But that would be in a perfect world. According to the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

This TV special got a lot of attention because it was unique live, just like opening night of the Broadway show on which it was based. In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. It is a compendium book, containing quotes and extrapolations into business culture, arranged in 76 business categories.

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