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Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

Leading Blog

You throw away your backup plans and you push forward, no longer bogged down by the infinite ways in which we hedge our own success. They are envious because your success makes them look bad in their mind. Leaning into your differences—those things that make you unique—will help you to not hedge your bets.

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Want Better Influence at Work? Avoid These Communication Mistakes

Let's Grow Leaders

In fact, we often notice some of the most successful leaders in our leadership programs using self-deprecating humor brilliantly. When I think of “hedging words,” I think of the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz. Let’s talk about three categories of words that sabotage your influence at work and what to say instead.

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Winning Teams Know to Trust Their Team Members

Leading Blog

But setting goals in functional silos and then hoping that everything works itself out across the organization is an unlikely path to success. Doing so ensures that what they’re doing as an entire team will enable the achievement of the company’s overall business objectives — which often represents the difference between success and failure.

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How Employees Respond When Activist Investors Get Involved

The Horizons Tracker

Institutional investors, such as hedge funds, are increasingly active in terms of their attempt to influence the direction of the firms they invest in. The authors argue that this loss of talent is largely because of the uncertainty caused by the hedge funds activity.

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How To Inspire And Energize People Every Day

Eric Jacobson

It's called, The Inspiration Code , by Kristi Hedges. Filled with profound insights and compelling data, and based on a commissioned survey on who and what inspires people, Hedges uncovers a set of consistent, learnable behaviors that dramatically enhance leadership success. Kristi Hedges But, first, what exactly is inspiration?

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Knight Rider 2000

Joseph Lalonde

Corrupt Officer Marla Hedges (Megan Butler) lures McCormick into a dangerous situation. Officer Marla Hedges: There is no out. Hedges told Miller there was no out. Just because it looks like success doesn’t mean it is. McCormick picked up the gun. She turned it into her partner, Miller. Want to do the right thing?

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Use a 360-Degree Approach to Get Feedback on Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

In a popular Harvard Business Review article, Kristi Hedges suggests the following approac. What could I do differently that would have the greatest impact on my success? For example, if you sense a need to improve the way you lead meetings, you might ask, “What could I do differently to make the meetings I lead more successful?”.