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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Strategic Blueprint for Professional Success.

Rich Gee Group

Moxie involves harnessing one's inner strengths —often developed through overcoming personal and systemic adversities—to persist through challenges that might otherwise seem daunting. Harness Cultural Strengths: Draw on the resilience and attitudes shaped by overcoming cultural and systemic hardships.

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James Taylor: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions. James is passionate about using decisioning technologies like business rules and predictive analytics to help companies improve decision making and develop smarter and more agile processes and systems. James has over [.].

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How to Prepare for Rising Stress Ahead

Michael Lee Stallard

During a state of stress response, the human body reallocates resources, including blood, glucose and oxygen, to bodily systems that it expects to use for fight or flight, including the heart, lungs and thighs, while reducing those same resources to the digestive system, immune system, reproductive system and parts of the brain.

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First Look: Leadership Books for October 2021

Leading Blog

In this book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. Always have at least one book going.” — Kent Taylor, Made From Scratch. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. If you think you know it, think again.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight.

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Challenging Thought-Terminating Clichés: Strategies for Organizational Change

Mike Cardus

Complacency often sets in when systems go unchallenged for extended periods. By ensuring marginalized voices can access and control crucial communication channels, they can challenge gatekeeping clichés like ‘This isn’t the time or place’ (Taylor, 2021). Critical Thinking in the Workplace. Critical Studies , 12 (4), 200–215.

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Is a Lack of Intentionality Holding You Back?

Leading Blog

He says, “Culture is a corporate immune system that protects against variance, decline, or abandonment by identifying and combating threatening forces like toxic partners, disjointed processes, and bad decisions.”. Sanborn defines culture as “what we think and believe, which then determines what we do and what we accomplish.”

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