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How to Make an Even Better Career Elevator Pitch

Let's Grow Leaders

Use this Simple Technique for a Better Career Elevator Pitch. Do you ever think of exactly the right thing to say — your perfect career elevator pitch — the moment you walk away from the conversation? This moment in my career helped launch me into the next level of leadership at the company I worked for.

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First Look: Leadership Books for March 2025

Leading Blog

Tiny Experiments : How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff Life isnt linear, and yet we constantly try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentation?

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How To Build a Future Others Don’t See

Leading Blog

If you want to push your career and your organization forward, you need to get bold. Chipping Toward Your Next Big Move We are advised to stick to our core competency. Am I focusing too much on what I believe is my core competency?” I NNOVATION is more about being bold than being disruptive. We see this too often.

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Leaders Live in A Glass House with Arjan van Weele

N2Growth Blog

Arjan van Weele , a Professor of Purchasing and Supply Management living in the Netherlands , discusses his perspective on leadership competencies that apply for any leader, no matter where you are within your career journey. Interview Summary. JH: You’re saying that leaders live in a glass house?

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Tech-Savvy Youth and the Future of C-Suite Leadership

N2Growth Blog

As more of the younger tech-savvy professionals rise in their careers with a growing demand for more diversity and inclusion, the recruitment and retention landscape will evolve from traditional models. The new opportunity is a welcome shift in the C-suite makeup.

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The Magical Career Fairy Will Help You

Persuasive Powerhouse

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. She doesn’t exist, and career rewards for your great work don’t just appear.

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How Do I Change My Reputation as a Leader? (Asking for a Friend)

Let's Grow Leaders

However, you don’t want to appear overly needy or only focused on your own career. Be sure to review our 6 Core Competencies You Can’t Lead Without. Stay Consistent While Being Generous Repetition is helpful and consistency is the key to lasting change.