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Don’t Let Your Deficiency Overwhelm Your Proficiency

Next Level Blog

When you’re new to a leadership role or new to an organization it can be a challenge to project the right amount of grounded confidence that you belong and can contribute. Have fun learning. Be gentle on yourself as you move through the learning curve. There’s always more to learn. Be curious. Ask questions.

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Leading Rookie Talent: A Sizing Guide for Stretch Assignments

Leading Blog

In this environment, the ability to learn is far more critical than one’s accumulated knowledge. While rookies are more capable than we might think, they still need leadership and guidance. When the learning gap is too big, people can easily become overwhelmed and simply let go (or break down).

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How To Be Your Best-Self Leader Every Day

Eric Jacobson

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Five Essential Principles For Leadership

Eric Jacobson

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements — Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Corporate Innovation Through Daring Personal Disruption

Lead Change Blog

After checking, you find out that the people in the first room discuss a new project that won’t take off. In the second room, people are discussing a new project that suddenly spiked. Johnson shares this insightful S-curve derived from research on innovation. The project takes off – it is spiking, it is dynamic.

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Let’s Stop Pushing “Development” as a Cheap Replacement for Training

Great Leadership By Dan

A slightly abbreviated version of this post was recently published in Smartblog on Leadership : True confession time. That is, projects, books, discussions with your manager, just about anything could and should be counted towards those 40 hours. This company had a proud tradition of investing in the development of its employees.

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Josh Bersin’s Perspective on Inspiring Transformation

HR Digest

His podcast series, “ Irresistible Leadership ,” serves as a compelling platform for thought-provoking discussions on the critical role of culture and leadership during times of adversity. Finally, I worked in two start-ups building enterprise solutions in training and online learning.