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Integrity is Everything!

Brigette Hyacinth

I knew I needed to start planning my exit strategy. Your ability to influence is not just based on skill or intelligence; it’s based on trust and requires integrity, which is the foundation of real and lasting influence. I sat through that meeting feeling shocked and disappointed. Society longs for leaders of integrity.

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Starting a Business? Plan Your Exit Now

Strategy Driven

When you put an exit in those terms, “plan your exit now” sounds like a recommendation to dream about the ways you’ll spend your millions. Every entrepreneur needs an exit strategy before opening a business – because it will dramatically define how you’ll run the business. In contrast, you may be a startup founder.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul.

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Find the Unicorns to Help Your Business Excel

Skip Prichard

How do you influence hiring managers to slow down and find unicorns? Even better, create a trusted environment where people can talk openly about their career goals and potential moves, so an exit strategy can be discussed and implemented with more time to find a replacement. Slow Down the Hiring Process.

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8 Ways to Finish a Ministry Job Well

Ron Edmondson

I do believe, however, the way one exits a position says a lot about their leadership as they enter something new. Being strategic-minded as I am, I have always had an exit strategy. I especially tried to make myself available to key influencers within the church, including staff, elders, core members and volunteer leadership.

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8 Ways to Finish a Job Well

Ron Edmondson

I do believe, however, that the way one exits a position says a lot about their leadership as they enter something new. Being strategic-minded as I am, I do have an exit strategy. Although I have had some experience ending, I’m not sure how well I’ve always done.

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If You're Out to Change the World, How Do You Know When to Move On?

Harvard Business Review

A certain phrase has gained currency in my world lately: the notion that a social enterprise must have an "exit strategy." Metrics like these may reassure donors, or give one INGO more influence than another, but they shed little light on whether these interventions brought a district closer to a point where INGOs are no longer needed.