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The Seven Tests of A CEO

Leading Blog

In The CEO Test by the always insightful Adam Bryant and by the former Amgen president and CEO Kevin Sharer, they present seven tests that really all leaders face in one form or another. They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership.

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Strategies to Lead Your Company Forward to the Future of Work

Let's Grow Leaders

17:11-18:46: The discussion turns to setting ambitious goals for leaders, aiming to make your organization the best place employees have ever worked. 20:02-24:22: Addressing the CEO’s perspective, the conversation highlights the underlying reasons for wanting employees back in the office.

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Virtual Working Can Be Stressful – How To Do It Right

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Gallup suggests that workers were the most pessimistic about their living standards since the company started measuring this in 2009, with around a third experiencing anger, stress, and sadness at work. “But there are still various things associated with these tools that humanity hasn’t adapted to.”

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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

Leading Blog

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. Here are ten ideas for rearranging your brain to achieve “big goals in turbulent environments where conventional thinking often fails.”

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“Live in the Moment” With Hakim Marrakchi, CEO at Maghreb Industries

N2Growth Blog

Hakim Marrakchi, CEO of Maghreb Industries, shared his perspective to Live in the Moment as the advice he would give his younger self. ” Others wish to be inspired, and the most straightforward way as a leader to do that demonstrates that you are just as willing to work as hard as anyone else to achieve the end goal. .

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Mindful Mondays: What’s on Your De-Stress Checklist?

Next Level Blog

In a meeting with a group of CEO''s last week, we were talking about how to show up at your best under conditions of high stress. It was a list of activities you could do either indoors or outdoors that would lower your stress. The goal is to get in 100 point points worth of de-stressing activities a week.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

Leading Blog

Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees. With similar conviction, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said, “Empathy makes you a better innovator.It’s a quality my wife helped me begin to learn when our son was born with severe disabilities.