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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. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind. How do you get there?

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Lessons From CEOs On How To Start Well And Perform Quickly As The New CEO

Eric Jacobson

“Walk past any airport bookstore and you’ll find countless books about what it means to be a leader or a CEO, or how to nail your first 90 days as a general executive,” says author Ty Wiggins. Burst the CEO bubble and act with curiosity over being right. These 10 components inform the chapters within the book.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

This, of course, starts with the CEO, and young companies have a broad set of founders and CEOs with different backgrounds, competencies, and demographics at the helm. A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO.

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Are You Making These CEO Mistakes? Learn from 7 Powerful Examples

Lead from Within

The role of a CEO is one of the most challenging and complex in the business world. While CEOs are often admired for their leadership, vision, and decision-making abilities, they are not immune to making mistakes. Successful CEOs understand that a happy and engaged workforce is essential for long-term success.

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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. So how do you teach and encourage resourcefulness in your leaders and on your team? “Who is doing this well?

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As a New Employee, How to I Ensure My Ideas at Work are Taken Seriously

Let's Grow Leaders

And I’m constantly hearing, “ahhh, I don’t think we can do it that way.” ” “Eh… we tried that before…” “THIS IS THE WAY WE DO THINGS AROUND HERE…” I’m frustrated and I’m getting the sense that I’m frustrating other people too. What should I do?”

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Executive Coaching Company Breakdown: How to Get the Most Out of Coaching for Strategic Change

N2Growth Blog

So, the question remains: when these top executives want to optimize their performance, become more self-aware, and improve their margins even further, how can they do so? What Do Executive Coaches Do? Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades.