Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Dress nicely and if you want to, add an element of flair to your wardrobe — a scarf, a sharp tie, a cool belt, cool shoes. I wore what they wore — sharp shirts and expensive slacks. When you first look at a person, the face is important, but your clothed body makes up a larger remainder of the perceived person. What did I do?

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Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 223

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Managing what can be experienced as sharp edges in working with other organizations starts with awareness and then deliberate behavior, much like the leadership evolution. Source: Paul Sean Hill: Leadership from the Mission Control Room to the Boardroom: A Guide to Unleashing Team Performance.

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Sharpe Environment Team Succession 108

Art Petty

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There's no doubt that in sharp-elbowed organizations, noisy, manipulative individuals can be the ones gaining the plum assignments and key promotions. The question, "Do I have to be a jerk to get ahead?" is spoken out of frustration.

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Sharpe Drucker How To Career 40

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2019

First impressions count for a lot when meeting someone – especially a potential boss, so making sure you’re fixed up and looking sharp is important. It also shows a great work ethic – a lot of people, understandably, work or do things for others because they want something in return.

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Sharpe Ethics Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Instill discipline.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

LDRLB

JUNE 22, 2010

We ask a series of questions regarding three areas of trust: (a) senior management trust; (b) direct supervisor trust; and (c) co-worker trust. My company’s leaders are completely ethical and honest. Senior management’s actions are completely consistent with their words. That also fosters management mistrust.

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Leadership White Paper Press Release Sharpe 102

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

After all, in business, you need more than a sharp mind to get ahead. Sometimes, in fact, it’s more about your personality and work ethic; for, when people respect you and like you, they may toss more work your way. You are probably saying the more jovial one, right? In addition, continue taking classes, boosting your skill base.

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Reputation Real Estate Sharpe Class 10

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Additionally know what you have to trade. Rehearse your pitch. Mine your backyard.

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Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Together they have survived some sharp rocks, literally and figuratively, in their friendship. Clearly any manager-employee friendship is fraught with traps. Here are five tips on how to manage a friendship with one of your employees. But I wasn’t her manager, and I had to keep the information confidential.

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How To Sharpe Information Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Wear what makes you feel sharp and confident. When working remotely, take care to provide small, clear signals that your commitment and work ethic are unwavering. So provide your manager with regular, positive reminders as to why your remote arrangement is working and appreciated. Start work at the same time each day.

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How To Long-term Tactics Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. He still talks about one senior manager—a man he’d spent years teaching the business to—who left a while back after taking an executive education program and being wooed away by one of our competitors. From: Lucy Vinapola, HR Manager, WeDiggIt. To: Patrick Fishburn, Asst.

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Case Study Engineering Commitment Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

And the sharp rise in markets-based compensation — including high-powered incentives for money managers and equity compensation for CEOs — has further fueled the depth and breadth of these errors. We are trusting you with consequential questions: how we save, how we manage risk, and how we, as an economy, allocate capital.

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Finance Insurance Career Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A seasoned CFO with a sharp mind and an abrasive style, Arthur had lost his job over a disagreement with his company’s new CEO. “I hadn’t realized how much I cared, how much work mattered to me, until then,” he explained, sharing a feeling I have heard many a manager describe. No, it’s not a muse!

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Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Management Craft

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The time to debunk these myths is now because they are more dangerous and less viable than ever given this post-recessionary climate of ethical scrutiny and intense competition. Getting promoted year after year requires a near-constant vigilance as well as a laser sharp focus on work – often to the detriment of everything else in your life.

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Ethics Sharpe Self-aware Career 85