Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

This is because you are going against your gut reactions, which is what you need for you to fight mental blindspots in your business and career. Switch your relationship management and networking to virtual venues. You will likely feel uncomfortable while preparing for a realistic, pessimistic scenario. You should, too.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As Peter Drucker, the management guru, said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Prepare contingency plans. Ask yourself “what-if” questions because things rarely go according to plan. Then consider whether the remainder should be automated, delegated, or eliminated.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2017

Being an entrepreneur is not a career choice that means you can stay static. Get a marketing BBA degree or a management MBA, or any other business related degree. If you plan everything correctly and do all the research, calling on advice from others and your new knowledge, you can easily start new business ventures.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. This can help executives build a network of contacts and develop relationships that will be valuable throughout their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

These risks are prevalent in any career decision, especially those that affect your financial security and personal life. He talked with management consultants and private equity firms — the fields where he'd worked a decade before. Is there a contingency plan? But with opportunity comes risk.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. I did just that during the first fifteen years or so of my Navy career. Leadership is about care and compassion.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The trauma brought about by such change happens every day to countless people, people without contingency plans, or any idea how they are going to cope with what has happened to them. I think in our careers the same thing can happen. And yet we do, cope I mean, under many conditions and through many challenges. What about you?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

So, she chose Australia and let her manager know that she’d be gone for two weeks. The response was disappointing: “Don’t do that,” her manager had said, “it will reflect badly upon you.” It takes a “pro-vacation manager” to strike that balance, but how do you actually become one?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Given that senior leaders often share the same worldview as the departing CEO and could prove to be out of touch with the changes sweeping through the industry, the board looks to the third level of management. The company should anticipate some departures and make contingency plans to appoint replacements and reach out to stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Manage the village. If it takes a village to raise a child, your job is to build and manage that village the same way you would a project team at work. Downloading “life hack” apps onto your phone can help you move from “overwhelmed and exhausted” to “busy but managing.”

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 16, 2015

Others, full of optimism, forge ahead with gusto, experience meteoric success, and later face a precipitous change in fortune due to a circumstance that could have been planned for. For career and business success, it’s worth pursuing a middle ground—one where we take calculated risks but have a fallback strategy in case Plan A craters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

On a personal level, “you have genuinely lost some friends” from the organization, says Kevin Coyne, the co-founder and managing director of strategy consulting firm Coyne Partners and a professor at Emory’s Goizueta Business School. Manage your stress. ” Even stars may have trouble staying positive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

The lack of parental leave plans in most US organizations “reflects the disconnect between people’s personal lives and their work lives,” says Lotte Bailyn, professor emerita at the MIT Sloan School of Management. “But if your manager is more chill, why not have the information?” Get a head start.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

You can't cover every possible contingency, but having a set of options lined up in case things don't work out as expected is a basic rule of good risk management, entrepreneurship , negotiation, career planning, and all number of other endeavors.

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