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How to Become Your Boss’s Favorite Employee

Career Advancement

Take risks, stepping outside of your comfort zone and proposing innovative ideas that you feel could benefit the company. Tell your boss about your career aspirations and map out a plan toward achieving your goals. The post How to Become Your Boss’s Favorite Employee first appeared on Career Advancement Blog.

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Proposing New Ideas Helps Men More Than Woman At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Machiavelli famously described the difficulties of proposing new ideas, for you will receive fervent opposition from those benefitting from the old ways and barely lukewarm support from those who might gain from the new. The post Proposing New Ideas Helps Men More Than Woman At Work first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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William Donaldson on Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Donaldson and Karl Weber extract relevant lessons for leaders in Entrepreneurial Leader.

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Never Say Never: The Importance of Word Choice in Leadership Communication

Leading Blog

For example, “Pat is just our assistant,” “You need to just figure it out,” or “Just wondering if you’ve looked at the proposal.” This word becomes problematic when we use it in the context of people. When we use the term in these contexts, it can be demeaning and diminishes the role, effort, and value of others.

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Right Leadership, Right Model

Great Leadership By Dan

Morgan : A few decades ago, when time was still a gentle concept, companies just rocked along in their comfortable hierarchies, everything centralized, proposals moving up the chain of command and decisions moving down at approximately the speed of glue. In my long career, 45 years of it as a CEO, I’ve lived that change.

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Consultants: Resistance Is Futile

N2Growth Blog

When you look back on your career, you remember the jobs you took, the jobs you declined, the opportunities realized and the opportunities lost. The first item on the agenda was a proposal by ACME Consulting. As I stated at the beginning of the article, I was a consumer of consulting services for the majority of my career.

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The 9 (or 99?) Ps of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Were we the first to propose Leadership Ps? co-author of Boost Your Career: How To Make An Impact, Get Recognized, and Build The Career You Want, is CEO of Flaum Navigators, a consulting firm that helps companies accelerate business growth through transformational ideas that galvanize leadership, brand building, and innovation.

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