Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Hess and Katherine Ludwig Smart technologies will become ubiquitous, invading and changing many aspects of our professional and personal lives and in many ways challenging our fundamental beliefs about success, opportunity, and the American Dream. If your life is one long success story it won’t make for a good read. Blog Post ).

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it’s your social life, family or career, one thing you can count on is the consistency of change. This leadership strategy encourages collaboration and ultimately sets a team up for long-term success. Help your people understand their part in the success story.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2013

Joel Garfinkle from Career Advancement Blog presents How to stop employee turnover in the first 90 days. “We When it comes to making career and leadership changes, there are three variables that come into play. There is a quiet leadership revolution going on, a shift in the definition of success from “what” to “how.”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”-Mark Mark Brouker. Mark Brouker.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In 1994 I created 20/20 Insight , an online multi-source survey platform. I have two grown sons, Sean and Teller, who are pursuing successful IT careers. During that time, all my work has been focused on helping people learn and grow stronger for the challenges of life and work. We have three cats—Harry, Max and Ernest.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines. We define success in a straightforward way: satisfaction with your job, respect for your expertise, and a senior-level position. Among women who have achieved success in STEM, 39% report such confidence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

While we still meet resistance from employees who do not understand how diversity and inclusion are related to their job in a scientific organization, this resistance is becoming less common as we continue to engage in change management and make the case for inclusivity across UCAR.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

More than half of the respondents to our surveys — all over the U.S., with people ranging from janitors to CEOs, old as well as young — were thinking of changing not just their jobs, but their careers. But it’s hard to jettison a career decades in the making in the pursuit of something new. Mid-Career Crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

In order to make our success sustainable, we decided to roll out a new “leadership model” for our middle- and upper-level managers. People needed to see what success looked like, and they needed to get support along the way. A lot of behavior change is about failing your way to success.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The consequences range from the distasteful to the disastrous: hurt feelings, lasting resentment from former colleagues, blame for harming the company, and — worst of all — a reputation for thoughtlessness that can damage a career. Career Transitions. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

But I’ve noticed a pattern over the past few hires: the very people who would benefit most from additional help at first resist the idea of a new arrival. Many articles have been written about why employees resist change and how to overcome that fear and defensiveness. However, it didn’t quite turn out that way.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

New ideas are resisted and decisions delayed. John Spence shared A Survey of CEOs: Navigating the Pandemic. John writes: “ The results of a survey I did to a global group of CEOs of businesses from $3 million to $4 billion on what the are learning from the pandemic.” ” Connect with Ken on Twitter at @kenbyler.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Developing political skill reduces stress and enhances performance, reputation, promotability, and career progression at work. A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. Same Game, Different Benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Teachers have had enough.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We can't resist including another 11 posts, a hard-to-agree-upon sampling of the ideas we were proudest to publish and discussions we most enjoyed hosting this year. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Talent plays only a tiny role in your success; what really matters is what you do. by Heidi Grant Halvorson.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Early in your career, these behaviors demonstrate that you are driven. While working long hours is often beneficial to early career advancement, as you rise to a position of leadership, maintaining this practice can damage your career prospects. Now, success hinges on interpersonal skill. Happy faces appear more neutral.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to organizational change, failure continues to be more common than success. To raise the odds of success, however, my experience suggests the place that leaders need to begin their transformation efforts is not their organizations: It’s themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This vulnerability frequently compels traditionalists to resist analytics. Finally, the CEO must identify the executives most vested in the status quo and proactively manage their resistance — up to and including weeding out the obstinate ones. CEOs must anticipate this reaction. Choose the right analytics leader.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

While virtually all pharma companies say they encourage risk, in reality the failure of individual drug-development programs frequently results in career damage or even job loss for the research teams involved. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. Although not skills per se, integrity and a reputation for ethical conduct are highly valued, according to the consultants we surveyed. What skills do you think executives need to be successful now and what skills will they need in 2020?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Even more impressive is that some of the most successful leaders throughout history were known to read one book every single day. Abraham Lincoln who only had one year of formal education credited his appetite for reading with his success. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Do I have your attention yet?

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Women on Business

AUGUST 12, 2011

According to the Pew Research Center Social and Demographic surveys, women are more honest, compassionate, outgoing, and creative; all important traits those are a few of the most of effective leaders. Some of the respondents also mention women’s family responsibilities and their shortage of experience as detriments to a successful career.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2016

In 1998, Stefano began a career abroad while simultaneously completing an MBA. In a recent global survey we conducted of 740 leaders, 84% reported experiencing stress on a regular basis (for more, read “How Your State of Mind Affects Your Performance” ). But with awareness and a little skill, its negative impacts are not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Further validation comes from a recent survey conducted by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman and discussed in a recent HBR blog. These frames raise resistance. Don’t End Your Career With Regrets in Your Personal Life. What Does Success Mean to You? The truth is that the best leaders are the best learners.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

And according to a survey by Network World magazine, only about one in eight tech managers 30 years old or younger had hired anyone over 40 during the previous year. The stereotype of an old person is someone resistant to change, slow to learn, less productive, and who will have fewer years in the organization to recoup any training costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

” He would later call this the most important insight of his career. Those who aspire to lead are rarely content with their organization’s financial success. Learning, striving people are happy people and good workers. They have initiative and imagination, and the companies they work for are rarely caught napping.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

This guide was developed as a way to ensure successful 2X2X2 executive developmental job changes and be a vaccination against possible derailment. Make sure the executive understands that a developmental move does not lower the standards – while making sure all of the support systems are in place to ensure their success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A survey of 25,000 Harvard Business School graduates found that although male and female graduates had similar levels of ambition , men were significantly more likely to have positions in senior management, direct reports, and profit-and-loss responsibility. While women make up 51.5% of all managers , much fewer women rise to the C-suite.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. The feedback was so much more useful and empowering than information from surveys. The event was a huge success. The success of the pop-up events helped overcome this resistance. The audience loved it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

But, just like their corporate counterparts, government reorganizations have a poor record of success. Results from a survey on HBR.org on the effectiveness of reorganizations (covering over 1,000 reorgs across all sectors and geographies, of which 87 were government institutions), provide pointers for how to get them right.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I was at a dinner with eight highly successful professional women recently, ranging in age from 35 to 74. Their stories were typical of research I have been conducting on dual-career couples. Her husband continued his career. Anything in between ends up being a morale- and career-sapping morass.

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