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How to Improve Your Managerial Skills

Strategy Driven

A professional career as a business manager, regardless of size, scope, or industry, demands a certain set of skills, unlike many other job roles. Competent managers are able to keep the metaphorical ship afloat, but if you aim to become a successful, well-liked, and impactful leader, there is more to be done.

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Stereotypes Can Force Older Workers Into Retirement

The Horizons Tracker

But there is an important difference: the senior employees we have interviewed are confident about their own skills, and their colleagues are mostly positive about their contribution,” the researchers explain. The study uncovered noticeable variations in attitudes towards older employees and the impact of declining industries.

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Unleash The Power of a Leadership Mindset: How to Develop and Cultivate It

Experience to Lead

Furthermore, self-awareness means you can hone your leadership skills with professional development. Resilience and adaptability became part and parcel of what many businesses had to do during the pandemic. This kind of leadership mindset can stifle innovation, create a blame culture and obstruct growth.

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. In fact, we think Cisco is one of the all-time best at this corporate skill.

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities. Neither viewed market share as its top priority, but both kept it current in their databases to be ready for the occasional question from senior management.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. If a goal is too easy to achieve, it will not prompt sufficient ingenuity and skills development. (If Make it a stretch.