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Mindfulness and Focusing on What Matters

Lead Change Blog

You’ll let go of stress. I’m under no illusion: with leadership comes stress. It’s part and parcel of the job, and something you’ll simply have to accept when you follow this particular career path. A leader who can listen properly will go very far indeed. Wrapping up. I’m a big fan of mindfulness.

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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself. The issue, as you point out, is that women revert to damaging stereotypes under stress than men are not as prone to. But is there a video? I can’t see one.

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How Women at the Top Can Renew Their Mental Energy

Harvard Business Review

Risk-taking is part and parcel of corporate careers, and few people, men or women, enter the top ranks of the organization without having made a bold gamble or two along the way. Paradoxically, I find that women who focus on their career as their main goal are less likely to be truly impactful as a leader.

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