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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

As I looked back, I realized that most, if not all, of the 45 Performance-based Skills are utilized in some way during visionary thinking. The reality is that creativity in your career environment is derived from both the need to solve a problem and the desire to avoid or solve future problems (which often leads to innovation).

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Cognitive Reappraisal for Wild Success

Leading Blog

Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes. I want to focus on a critical, but often difficult skill that we all need to develop: cognitive reappraisal. It looks like his career is over. They doubt they can save his leg.

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New Tool Offers Possible Career Alternatives For Those Threatened By Automation

The Horizons Tracker

What is perhaps most interesting, however, is that they also examine how one might transition from a career that is at risk to one where the chances of automation are less severe (and indeed require the smallest amount of training to make the transition). ” Likely impact. Put to the test.

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Careers For The Academically Minded

Strategy Driven

If you find yourself dreading leaving the libraries and computer halls of academia, then here are some careers worth considering. A career in research can be wildly different depending on, for instance, the field of academia you are in. Love academia and researching but not the particular field of the sciences you’ve chosen to study?

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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

We all know the common and famous careers out there. Did you know there are many great career paths that are ‘hidden’ from the normal news mainstream? Careers we probably know exist if we really thought about it, but we tend to forget them when we look at the entire career picture. BEST JOB EVER.

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Build Your Own Competency Model- A Team Exercise

Let's Grow Leaders

Beginning with one simple question: When a person in this role is at the top of the game, what skills do they do best? What skills are most central to their success? Considering where the organization is heading in the next three years, what skills will be most vital in this role? Have the team pick their five favorites.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering topics from economic history and social inequality to political theory, race, and culture.

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