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Build Your Leadership Capacity on a Strong Personal Foundation

Lead Change Blog

The same is true for your leadership career. In my new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions , I offer four questions to help you build your leadership foundation: Vision: Where are you going? Mission: What are you doing to get there? Yogi was right.

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It’s important to understand that vision statements are design oriented, while mission statements are execution oriented. In fact, it is the corporate vision that should determine its mission. The vision is bigger picture and future oriented, while the mission is more immediately focused on the present.

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Success vs. Significance | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Taking from my own experience, I've been lucky to be successful (measured by quick progression up the career ladder, material comforts etc) and yet I'm still working on being professionally significant. I think one reason for that is that I always had a strong sense of purpose/my purpose and who I am.

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How to Survive a Company Scandal You Had Nothing to Do With

Harvard Business Review

Like the dead hand reaching up from the grave in a horror movie, a long-severed employment relationship can emerge from your past and trip up your career mobility — particularly if the employer has ever been touched by scandal. Explicit laws vary but so do implicit social norms, which can be easy for outsiders to transgress.

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Drinking the Talent Kool-Aid | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with. Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with.

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