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Constructing Your Career Castle
As the story goes, Walt Disney had a key piece of advice to the executives planning the Magic Kingdom: Build the castle first. Disney understood that everyone involved in achieving his vision — from the Madison Avenue advertisers selling it to the guys hacking their...
Make way for big picture thinking
Many people envision the upper rungs of the corporate ladder as an inspired, innovative place where leaders spend their time on stimulating projects that shape the organization’s future. But this vision is not always a reality. In many companies today, even the most...
Make Your Work More Meaningful
by Monique Valcour Critically important to performance and well-being, meaning is what makes people thrive. And conversely, a lack of it undermines people’s ability to function on many levels, from job performance to mental and physical health. For example, people who...
Design a satisfying career
by Nathaniel Koloc Based on conversations with over 12,000 professionals and hundreds of hiring managers, we’ve gained insights into what’s lacking in the traditional approach to career planning, and how professionals can create careers with an ongoing sense of...
Three Differences Between Managers and Leaders
by Vineet Nayar Here are three tests that will help you decide if you’ve made the shift from managing people to leading them. Counting value vs Creating value. You’re probably counting value, not adding it, if you’re managing people. Only managers count value; some...
For leaders: which is better, being lovable or being strong?
by Amy J.C. Cuddy, Matthew Kohut, and John Neffinger Most leaders today tend to emphasize their strength, competence, and credentials in the workplace, but that is exactly the wrong approach. Leaders who project strength before establishing trust run the risk of...
Reinvigorate a Disengaged Sales Force
by Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Wong A stunning 70% of workers say they are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” with their work, according to Gallup’s ongoing study of the American workplace from 2010 through 2012. Sales reps — the people who represent your firm...
Craft a Sustainable Career
by Monique Valcour Imagine crafting a sustainable career for yourself. Year after year, you perform work that makes full use of your skills and challenges you to develop new ones. Your work not only interests you, it gives you a sense of meaning. You enjoy...
Becoming a Better Judge of People
by Anthony K. Tjan In business and in life, the most critical choices we make relate to people. Yet being a good judge of people is difficult. How do we get better at sizing up first impressions, at avoiding hiring mistakes, at correctly picking (and not missing)...
To Guide Difficult Conversations, Try Using Compassion
by Allison Rimm “Oh no, here comes another one of those conversations,” you say to yourself. You know what I’m talking about — we all have to face them from time to time, and they can be the bane of a leader’s existence. Imagine that you’re leading a project and one...
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