Jonny Tooze

Why It’s Time To Embrace New Ways Of Working

It’s a luxury being a small business. With less than a hundred employees, making a change is really pretty simple. We discuss the idea…..

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Nick Gilmour

Stop Focusing on Work-Life Balance If You Want to Be Successful

Most of us have heard that maintaining a work-life balance comes with a myriad of health and productivity-related benefits: stress reduction, burnout prevention, and more……

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Paul Leinwand

How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution

Research has shown that only about 8% of company leaders excel at both strategy and execution. But more and more…..

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Dana Brownlee

4 Tips Before Asking Your Boss To Work From Home Permanently

Depending on the pre-pandemic culture of the organization and the nature of one’s work, this could certainly be a big ask, but there is a right way to approach it.

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Ruth Soukup

Stop Listening to Voice Inside Your Head That Says ‘You Can’t

At some point in your life, when you’ve thought about doing something a little bit bold, a little bit different or a little bit outside of your comfort zone, you’ve probably heard a voice in the back of your head that’s whispered: “What makes you think that you can do this?”

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David Robinson

Leading Through Uncertainty And Change

The military’s collaborative planning process creates a shared information environment that enables rapid adjustments during changing circumstances. Here’s how you can use it to increase agility and stay competitive

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Hayagreeva Rao

McKinsey Insights | Accountability = account × ability

A brief essay on a misused word.
Clearly, accountability relates to measurement and answerability based on the state of affairs of an individual. This does not mean, however, that accountability is limited to the state of affairs that can be measured by key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Tom Popomaronis

Books written by self-made billionaires to help you succeed

Whether it’s building a successful business or climbing the career ladder, you can find inspiration from people who have done the seemingly impossible: Change the world and become a billionaire.

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Carson Tate

Here’s everything you need to know about Leading a hybrid team

Exclusion. Inequality. Inefficiency. Isolation.
These are a few of the challenges a hybrid workforce leader must address and overcome if they want to lead a high-performing, agile team

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Theodore Kinni

Leading under pressure

To control the anxiety produced by moments of intense pressure, first step back and analyze the stakes

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Marcel Schwantes

A 50-year-old CEO shares books he wishes he read in his 30s

11 books — about leadership, success and professional growth from a CEO and leadership coach, that has significantly changed the way he thinks, acts, leads and perceives the world around him

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Par Chadha

How To Build Business Relationships That Last

It can be difficult for busy executives to find the time to invest in business relationships with so many competing priorities. We learn how to build that business relationship

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Sally Blount & Shana Carroll

Overcome Resistance to Change with Two Conversations

In this HBR article, we discuss combating internal resistance

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Michael E. Porter & Nitin Nohria

How CEOs Manage Time

In 2006, Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were, with whom, what they did, and what they were focusing on.

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Nick Maggiulli

Want to Improve Your Career? Become an Uncertainty Killer

There’s lots of great career advice out there.
Follow your passion. Find a mentor. Expand your network.
Unfortunately, advice like this tends to be too abstract to be useful most of the time

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Rory Sutherland

Rory Sutherland’s Career Advice

In this 10-minute video, Rory Sutherland addresses a wide range of career advice questions and explains why he believes one of the best things you can do for your career is to pursue a certain degree of randomness.

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Cassandra Frangos

How Long-Tenure CEOs Stand Their Ground

While CEO pay continued to climb higher, a separate stat that likewise impacts leaders is less upbeat of late—their tenure

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Jay Ko in LinkedIn

The most crucial step in consumption process

I recently learned about why note taking is the most crucial step in the (information) consumption process of learning through Alex Lieberman’s podcast episode: Learning How to Learn

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IESE Business School Blog

Changing sectors mid-career? Yes, it’s possible

Have you been feeling stuck for a long time, like you’ve reached the height of where you can aspire already? You want to take a step in another direction, take on new challenges, but you wonder whether, after 15 or 20 years working, it’s too late to reinvent yourself.

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The WSJ

Acing Tricky Questions

On her second round of interviews for an editorial job in Chicago, Jess Wangsness was asked: If you could be a giraffe without a neck or an elephant without a trunk, which would you choose and why?

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