Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2024

My own confrontation with vulnerability’s raw power came unexpectedly during a pivotal moment in my career. It breaks down barriers, fosters genuine connections, and cultivates an environment where innovation and loyalty can flourish. This connection not only humanizes the leader but also elevates the entire team’s morale and cohesion.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Until…there’s too much of it, and its dark side surfaces: lack of innovation, narrow-minded thinking, ingrained and unquestioned bias, outdated practices, and failure to grow as a person. If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As such, women executives should position themselves for success in these new roles, from chief data officer, chief digital officer, and chief innovation officer to chief sustainability officer and chief transformation officer. Not just that, their efforts offer the business world an innovative blueprint for pulling through crises.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Radical honesty requires leaders to share strategic context, acknowledge uncertainties, and invite meaningful dialogue. When leaders prioritize developing future innovators, they create sustainable competitive advantages. Your performance sets the tone for organizational achievement and innovation.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Leaders who master emerging competencies consistently outperform their peers in organizational innovation and talent retention. Above all, these executives cultivate organizational capabilities that transform uncertainties into actionable insights.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 1, 2024

Monash University research indicates that the indecisiveness and uncertainty young individuals face regarding their careers can have adverse consequences, including helplessness, depression, stress, lack of purpose, and despair. The findings revealed prevalent feelings of career uncertainty and anxiety.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? You can, however, embrace uncertainty by adjusting your views as new information becomes available. Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

These professional risk-takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us much about navigating the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. More specifically, his success in his military and corporate careers was predicated on the people who worked with him, and for him.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In a time of great uncertainty, courage, empathy, love, and a passion to improve the status quo now and forever are required. Martin's Press, 2023) In The Art of Clear Thinking , Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned during his career flying some of the Air Force’s most advanced aircraft. How many have you read?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2020

Exploration Excellence: Excelling at having the courage to go into new areas – the unknown - and to explore and discover the new and the different by using low-risk iterative learning processes is the third key human skill.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2024

The focus is not only on experience and skills but also on the ability to drive innovation, handle crises, and inspire teams — qualities that genuinely define exceptional leadership. It is the process of acquiring top leadership talent that shapes corporate strategy, improves operational efficiency, and drives innovation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

While there’s a narrow, psychological definition of ‘closure’, what I’m talking about here is the more pedestrian, run-of-the-mill need to replace ambiguity with clarity, confusion with order, uncertainty with firm answers, and what’s unfinished with completion. This Zeigarnik Effect is a powerful dynamic.

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Management Excellence

MARCH 28, 2014

Career Getting Ahead It''s Your Career! Leadership Professional Growth Coping with Uncertainty at Work Grow Your Power at Work Innovating in the Workplace It''s Your Career' This feed has moved to: [link] Update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

They are cognitive reappraisal, grit, learning from feedback, finding your spark, innovation, resilience, and building balance. When you are looking at danger, uncertainty, and understandable fear, you need to be able to get perspective on what you’re facing. It looks like his career is over. They doubt they can save his leg.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The role of chance A second study , by Audencia Business School in Paris, also found that chance plays a considerable role in our careers. The majority of the participants (62.17%, or 424 respondents out of 682) reported having experienced a chance event that significantly influenced their careers.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As we grapple with the lingering uncertainties of the pandemic, our expectations concerning careers continue to evolve, reshaping the world of work in 2022. Are we still inclined towards lifelong careers, or are multiple jobs and even multiple careers becoming more appealing in the contemporary landscape?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The financial services industry demands leaders who can strategically manage risks, drive innovation, and stay ahead of the curve. This can be accomplished by effectively communicating the company’s mission, vision, and core values and emphasizing the opportunities for career growth and professional development within the organization.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 23, 2020

Someone asked me recently, how many times I have reinvented myself and my business, throughout my long and stellar career. I found myself hard-pressed to accurately share the actual number.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Dana Theus of InPower Coaching writes FAQ: Career Coach Advice. Dana explains: “When I am giving career coach advice, I often find some themes in the conversation around how to handle uncertainty and non-standard career challenges. Follow Braden on Twitter at @innovate. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Facing change and uncertainty can feel scary, but your awareness of the oncoming changes will help you prepare to negotiate them with grace and skill. A propensity for developing innovative new ideas and taking strategic risks will also differentiate leaders from the rest of the crowd. Ingenuity.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Constant improvement (and innovation) in products and processes is one of the ways to maintain positive momentum. Constant learning equips leaders to remain agile in the face of uncertainty (and it sets a great example for people to follow). As a leader, if you are not making forward progress, you are already moving backwards.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 24, 2025

But beyond these definitions, we know that character is manifested in leadership, innovation, resilience, change, courage, loyalty, breaking barriers, and more, explains Robert (Bob), Character drives the best traits in our society, such as honesty, integrity, leadership, and transparency, and it drives others to exhibit those qualities.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

A Lot of Uncertainty, Survey Finds. A Lot of Uncertainty, Survey Finds. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared L eadership in Turbulent Times: 9 Ways to Embrace Change. A courageous, innovative culture is a place where “people like us” speak up. . ” Find Diana on Twitter at @DianaPMAuthor.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2024

Let’s explore why the 90-Day Career Portfolio Review, presented through a compelling portfolio metaphor often utilized by astute money managers who constantly are focused on ROI (Return on Investment), is the innovation Chief Talent Officers (CTO) and Chief Learning Officers (CLO) have been searching for.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

What Is a Career Self-Assessment Test? Having a successful career is a common life goal , and yet many of us appear to be engaged in temporary jobs filled with uncertainty. In this endeavor, they fail to establish a career or an overarching domain of expertise in a single field that can define the work that they do.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But often, these top-tier executives don’t know where to go to achieve this critical perspective and guidance at this stage in their careers. These blind spots can often be unproblematic until moments of instability or uncertainty suddenly become detrimental. Advantage 4: See Goals More Clearly and Purposefully.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Do employees feel that their boss honors their career aspirations, building needed skills that serve their organization now and in the future? Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog , says “ Improve Your Perception: A reputation that took decades to build can be threatened by a single event. Jennifer V.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Not just in terms of their own career growth, but in how it would open up a whole new understanding and area of knowledge in their field of study, if not also inspiring others to take up the cause to learn more about this elemental key to our existence.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 1, 2025

The result is a work-culture of uncertainty, where effort doesn’t always lead to success, and decisions seem based on politics rather than a clear process. Internal Development Is Structured and Useful: Career growth is shared, known, and mapped out. This predictability minimizes wasted energy and uncertainty.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 23, 2013

While the growing levels of anxiety, fear and stress we see in today’s workplaces are partly due to the prevailing uncertainties surrounding the global economy, it is also a manifestation of that disconnect between what we do and why we do it. Bringing Your Passion Back To Work Finding The Courage To Take That First Step.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Our friends at 99U have just released their second book, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career. I hope you’ll check it out for more reasons than that, however, as its packed with practical, evidence-based information on developing your career.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2021

New research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business highlights the crucial role emotional intelligence can play in dealing with this stress and uncertainty. ” Managing uncertainty. . ” Managing uncertainty. “Being an entrepreneur is not a ‘traditional workplace setting.’

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

People who have bad attitudes have more career turnover. After a further two years, during which I was looking for a new career start, I finally decided to work from home and be closer to my wife and beautiful eight year old daughter whom I had neglected a lot while running these businesses in the first place. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Ultimately, executive coaching empowers entrepreneurs to tap into their full potential, overcome obstacles, and achieve sustainable success in their careers and ventures. This absence of a pre-existing framework can lead to a sense of uncertainty and heightened pressure.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 12, 2024

Master Change Management : Change is inevitable, especially in the age of AI, where uncertainty looms. Encourage employees to be open to new technologies and approaches, fostering an environment where innovation and growth thrive. Emphasizing these skills will be essential for thriving in the AI-driven workplace.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

After sharing a bit of his background, he quickly delves into his career beginning at ABC, and the lessons he’s learned and the principles that have guided him that help “nurture the good and manage the bad.”. Iger writes of the key mentors in his career and his relationship with Steve Jobs, George Lucas, and Michael Eisner.

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