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How To Unleash Your Full Potential

Eric Jacobson

You throw away your backup plans and your push forward, no longer bogged down by the infinite ways in which we hedge our own successes.” Question: How does organizational hierarchy train us to accept terrible working conditions and crush entrepreneurial spirit? Higgins : Forget "paying your dues."

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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How to Brand a "Useless" Degree

Harvard Business Review

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Graduation season is upon us — and that means approximately 700,000 U.S.

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May the Best Person Win

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Train skill.”. How will a perception of favoritism affect their ability to lead? How will this strategy impact the long-term competitiveness of organizations or even of nations? Ray Dalio, American billionaire, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist, said, “Hire right, because the penalties of hiring wrong are huge.”.

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The Busier You Are, the More You Need Mindfulness

Harvard Business Review

We have worked with banks willing to take on toxic assets (again) and hedge funds willing to take a $100 million gamble on a failing company. How to bring calm and focus to your work routine. 3) If you have downtime, do you sometimes feel lost as to how to fill it? You and Your Team. Mindfulness. 5) Do you want a promotion?

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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Also see psychologist Maria Konnikova’s 2013 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Training in emotional intelligence is life-long work, and most of us need as many tutors as possible. Of course, the wisest among us will always hedge our forecasts with qualifiers such as “will likely” or “is apt to.”

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10 Remarkable People on Having a Career That Matters

Harvard Business Review

It’s the things that scare you the most that you have to do…One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” But he does everything from corporate trainings to stand-up to memoir. .’ It’s the best advice I’ve ever gotten.

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