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Should You Say No to That Big Job Offer?

May 3, 2020February 24, 2023

Going after what you want may not get you what you need Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash Q: Should I leave my own consulting practice and join another firm …

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How Can I Be My Authentic Self in the Workplace?

April 26, 2020March 27, 2023

Live into yourself with your whole self, because the cost to not do so is too huge to pay

How Do We Measure Progress in Our Careers?

April 19, 2020February 24, 2023

Money is a shitty metric for work. Only you can find the right one. Armand Khoury on Unsplash “I wonder if you’d help me,” you wrote. “How do you measure …

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Treat Dissenters Like Champions, Not Complainers

February 6, 2020February 6, 2020

Instead of celebrating her fresh take, the marketing director was told she was being difficult, even demanding. Recently hired at a major financial firm to identify growth strategies, she spent …

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The Work We Are Called To Do

December 12, 2019December 12, 2019

Here we are, near the end of 2019.  The other night, my son was in bed with me when he started to talk about why women aren't going to be …

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The Case for Onlyness

November 26, 2019December 1, 2019

Not Everyone Will, But Anyone Can. Nothing matters more than innovation; that something new that creates value. It’s innovation that has allowed us to build today’s smartphones, and will let …

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Interview: Ideas can now spread and scale through networks, rather than hierarchies

November 26, 2019December 1, 2019

As a former executive at Apple and Autodesk, and consultant for a number of other Silicon Valley companies, Nilofer Merchant has a pretty good idea of how to move things …

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The First Step to Being Powerful

November 26, 2019

“I am such a big failure. I can’t believe that I’ve made this mistake and it’s cost me months and months of time.  I might never recover…What an idiot to …

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Do You Trust Your Own People?

November 14, 2019November 16, 2019

If your team could get more than one hundred creative new ideas, ranging from revenue-generating market expansions to ways to improve the health of your employees and reduce insurance costs, …

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