Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

When you’re racing 90 miles an hour, the last thing you want to do is slow down. That’s how it feels on those exhilarating days when you’re completely focused, tearing through your to-do list, racking up accomplishments. You just want to keep going. But the research tells us otherwise. The finding?

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Energy Course Follow-up Objective 21

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? Any other leadership advice you recommend for leading well? And I got 29 thoughtful responses.which I will give you in full detail after I highlight the Top 19 these experts collectively believe we need to focus on.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2017

How often have you put off doing something fun, like taking a trip or treating yourself, because you felt that you had too much work to do, and you had to get it all done first? Time and time again, we hear the same thing: of course you can’t just leave and have fun before work is done. The result?

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Participative Stress Benchmarking Follow-up 14

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Whether you are an emerging leader with a small team or an experienced leader responsible for directing the daily operations of a multinational organization, these seven CEO success tips will allow you to glean insight into your marathon by looking at the roadmap to help you win the race without fail.

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CEO Succession Tips How To 393

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve shared various ways you can become a healthy leader over the last couple of weeks. I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? I believe their insights into healthy habits of leaders will inspire you to find your own.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 24, 2015

Have you every had a really crazy date? It always gets crowded at that stop, and frankly I was really hoping no one would sit next to me. ” To give you a sense of my mental state, it didn’t even occur to me that comment could possibly have been directed at me. Where are you from? Do you want to sit down?”.

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Training Resistance Diversity Team 180

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

How do you get people to stop bad habits, adopt good ones, or do something about a societal or health issue that may not even be on their radar? In developing the strategy for a recent cause campaign, we took a three-step approach to considering our options for tone, appeal/approach, and the most effective elements. Our conclusion?

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Marketing Storytelling Media Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

As he stepped up to the microphone, his planned speech felt inauthentic and ill-timed. Throughout, he remained aware of the emotional landscape: “There’s no disaster plan that teaches you how to manage the emotions of an institution’s constituents or its employees. “I’m not a railroad buff,” he said.

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Crisis Storytelling Open-book Reputation 8

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2011

In an example of following the advice I share here on my blog, I’m taking a break from writing a new piece this week (along with a minimal presence online in general), in part to allow myself time to reflect on the ideas I want to share here in the coming weeks, as well as to prepare for a new feature I hope to launch on my site next week.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Walk into any fitness center, health club, or gym in the country and you’ll see yourself. It doesn’t matter whether the gym is one step up from a cave or a posh Park Avenue fitness emporium — you’ll see mirrors, and lots of them. You've got to make your inputs and outputs visible.

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System Software Process Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

How many people do you know who have a continual vacation “carry over” balance because they never get around to taking what they’re entitled to? ’’ You and Your Team. . ’’ You and Your Team. The ugly reality of being one or — gasp! ‘’It’s important.’’

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Management How To Long-term Short-term 8

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

You can’t predict the future, so you need people that get the new story. You can’t control circumstances, but what you can do is to ensure that you have the best people in place so that when the world changes around them, they can adapt, respond, and step up. Get the Right People on Board 2.

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Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 256

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

​ Quick Guide: Jump to the Section You Want to Read What are the Benefits of Content Marketing? 65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. 8 Stellar Ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

It is running a marathon. If the hum of your career has become so deafening that you struggle to hear those other parts of your life, you’re not alone. Change how you think about yourself. First, you must take command of your own story. It is being Beyoncé And it is all of those things at the same time.

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