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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

Next Level Blog

Leadership is more complicated.    Technology, globalism, competition, structural shifts in the economy, generational expectations and so many other factors have merged together to make the practice of leadership - influencing people to work together on common goals - a lot more complicated than it was ten years ago. 

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Playing Office Politics Without Selling Your Soul

Harvard Business Review

” Whether you participate in them or not, politics have a big influence on what happens to you, your projects, and your team, so it’s hard to be indifferent to them. Interpersonal influence : a convincing ability to affect how and what other people think. And as the old saying goes, “contacts mean contracts.”