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New year, new you. This idea, albeit cliché, is motivation for many individuals to reflect on their personal growth and what they’d like to accomplish in the upcoming year. And while some will dismiss the idea that new year’s resolutions can be successfully upheld, there is value in setting meaningful goals for yourself. Assessing your […]
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Kim Staflund, Founder & Publisher, Polished Publishing Group According to renowned American businessman and investor, Robert Kiyosaki, an “Asset can be anything as long as it has value, produces income or appreciates, and has a ready market. Assets put money IN your pocket.” Before Kiyosaki’s popular Rich Dad Poor Dad book was published, many of
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“He’s fast on his feet” or “She has a clear head on her shoulders.” “He’s definitely a thought-leader in the industry.” These current kudos pique a leader’s attention. After all, leaders look to hire, promote, and listen to those who think clearly and communicate well. But what if you’re naturally quiet and slow to speak
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Each year clients hire me to help them make tough decisions, but in the process, I learn as much as they do. Some of the things I discovered this year reinforced lessons I discovered previously, but every year brings surprises too. Here are my recommended New Year’s resolutions for anyone who wants to improve a
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James Hamerstone & Lindsay Musser Hough Forget the glass ceiling. The fact is: women communicate differently than men and, too often, to their own detriment. They tend to speak up less, apologize more, downplay their achievements and use less-powerful body language – all of which impact their career success. This seed is often planted in
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Ann Skeet, Director of Leadership Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University Since the story broke that VW deliberately buried emissions results in its software, plenty has been written about this case of corporate malfeasance, perhaps more than any since Enron. The Volkswagen brand crisis seems fairly straightforward to me. With
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Louise Kelly, CEO & Founding Executive, EnerBank In less than a month, I will be retiring as CEO of EnerBank USA. This decision didn’t come lightly. I’ve spent most of my life in banking: much of it in the mid-Atlantic region and, for the last 13 years in Salt Lake City, as the founding executive
Michael Parker, Author, It’s Not What You Say: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most In the days of ‘control and command,’ leaders could rely on positions of hierarchy that allowed them to indulge in communication that was essentially one way. This communication needed to be clear but it assumed an audience –
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Think of the questions you asked or were asked at your last company meeting. It’s likely that you heard one, if not more of the following questions: What do you think? Are there any questions? What’s next? What’s the problem? What are the results? What’s the agenda for the
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The Institute for Health and Human Potential conducted a survey for our New York Times bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure, The Science of Doing More Your Best When it Matters Most (Crown Business, 2015), asking senior leaders about the impact on them and their teams when they were tasked to do more with less. Here
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