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How to Evaluate Whether You Made an Effective Career Decision

Lead Change Blog

Tom made a major career decision 3 months ago: he decided to leave his position as chief information officer at a large manufacturing firm to become an entrepreneur and start a company to provide software that helps manufacturers improve the quality of their manufacturing process. The Science of Effective Decision Making.

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Career vs Passion: What should you run after?

HR Digest

Follow your passion and earn or build a career just for earning? What should you run after in the career vs passion dilemma. The question of following your passion or career-building is an existential question. Is passion the difference between having a job and a career? Passion vs. Career.

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Beware the Leader’s Curse

Lead Change Blog

The leader’s curse is a condition that can be very dangerous to the financial health of your company, your competitive edge, culture, and professional career. Identify a role within your company that you might assume at the right time in the future, that plays to your strengths, like chief evangelist or chief technology officer.

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6 Ways to Avoid Joining the Great Resignation

CEO Insider

The severity of the news varies by industry and role (mid-career technology and healthcare workers are reported to be leaving most). The conversation around the Great Resignation is not letting up and for good reason.

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When Personal Tragedy Strikes, Downshifting at Work Doesn’t Always Help

Harvard Business Review

Now back at work as a single parent, she’ll face a choice: To find ways to continue to pursue an intense professional life without support from a spouse, or to throttle back her career to give her more time to focus on parenting. It’s a transition Sophie Vandebroek knows all too well.

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

Harvard Business Review

Or think of Nathan Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, who said (and then confirmed to me in person for this article), "The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1,000x, but by 10,000x."

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

“It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” Hill says you should also show a desire to help your employees advance in their careers. Find a way to add value to your team and help employees advance their careers. ” Here are some tips on how to make that transition as seamlessly as possible.