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Choose growth

Lead Change Blog

They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. Abraham Maslow, psychologist. She divided mindsets into two categories—fixed and growth—and defined them this way: “In a fixed mindset , people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits.

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Book Review: Eyeballs Out

LDRLB

I’m insanely jealous of the experience Donna Sturgess documents in her new book Eyeballs Out: How to step into another world, discover new ideas an dmake your business thrive. While Strugess’ stories from onboard the Stennis are entertaining and engaging, the quality of the content goes down a little everywhere else.

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Book Review: Eyeballs Out

LDRLB

I’m insanely jealous of the experience Donna Sturgess documents in her new book Eyeballs Out: How to step into another world, discover new ideas an dmake your business thrive. The book chronicles her experiences as a guest on board the USS Stennis aircraft carrier and seeks to draw lessons for business from this incredible floating city.

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Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing

Harvard Business Review

After our basic human needs (such as food and shelter) are met, famed psychologist Abraham Maslow says that our esteem needs — social recognition, personal worth, and accomplishment — become critical to our perceptions of happiness.

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Have You Trained Your Replacement?

Persuasive Powerhouse

Not sure where this was instilled in my work life but is always a factor when starting a new job/career at a company.

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Chris Brady

Our nation's founding documents promise us the right to a "Pursuit of Happiness." One theory posits that happiness is like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. " Everything seems to be focused on this concept called happiness.  There are many interesting theories.

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Navigating the Transition from Friend to Boss

Harvard Business Review

Psychologist Abraham Maslow argued 60 years ago that a sense of belonging is one of the most basic human needs, right after food, water and safety. If your friends deserve them, and it’s documented, great. I think it’s safe to say that we need friends in our professional lives just as much as we do in our personal ones.

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