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Leadership advice for career and home

Being the captain of Team USA’s women’s soccer team is similar to my role as co-captain of the Rampone family. I try to do the...

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Network purposefully with a hunter’s instinct and a farmer’s mentality

Job-seekers and hiring-decision makers agree that job hunting and recruiting are disagreeable, inefficient, stressful, frustrating and time-consuming but necessary for both parties. Most candidates...

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Preparing for the leadership challenges that await

Early in my career, I embarked on a soul-searching exercise to help me define who I wanted to be, what I was willing to...

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Make the audience feel welcome

For many of us, speaking in public is our No. 1 fear. Fear of speaking in public stems from many things such as uncertainty...

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The unlikely link between authority and empowerment

I’ve been talking to a budding author recently. He’s in his 20s and very likely to land a book deal here soon. He told me he...

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When to hire an executive or leadership coach

In my early years as an executive coach, I naively thought everyone could use coaching and would engage with gusto in the work and...

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The vitamin Cs of starting a business

The decision to start a business can be one of the most exciting choices that a person will ever make. Few experiences can match...

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Why mentorship isn’t enough for talent development

Research into why some people make it into executive leadership, and some people don’t, has illuminated an interesting phenomenon. It turns that that while...

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How do you cope with friends and family who don’t support your business?

The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...

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10 things your company won’t tell you about succession planning

I’ve managed formal succession-planning systems for a number of large companies and consulted with quite a few smaller companies. I network with others that...

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How can leaders get the most out of a professional business organization?

The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...

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Former BP CEO John Browne on coming out in business

This post is excerpted from “The Glass Closet” (HarperBusiness, June 2014) by John Browne. Visit The Glass Closet website and follow @glassclosetorg on Twitter....

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Creating a Leading Work Environment

China Gorman, CEO of Great Place to Work China Gorman, chief executive officer of Great Place to Work, has more than 30 years of...

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Do you know what your values are?

One of the most powerful and heartwarming subplots from the tragic period of the Holocaust was the heroic role that many “righteous gentiles” played...

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Bad leadership and management advice you should run away from

There’s a LOT of advice out there on leadership and management — almost as much as you’ll find on dating, careers, and how to...

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How to be a leader without faking it

What makes it important to understand and stay connected with the core of who you are as a human being? How do you become...

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3 tips to give bosses feedback without them knowing it

I presented a webinar recently about making your relationship with your boss work for you, and I received a really good question: How do...

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So, what do you do?

Languages and cultural idioms oftentimes teach powerful lessons. For example, Yiddish, a Jewish-spoken dialect that is primarily a blend of Hebrew and German, offers...

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When the growing gets tough

Think about the learning that contributed most powerfully to your development and who you are today. Consider the experiences that built the expertise you...

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3 ways managing millennials will make you a better leader

My son is 21 and in his second year of a summer office internship. He’s working hard, getting good reviews and privately developing a...

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What do “Call of Duty” and Gandhi have in common?

I’m not a gamer, but when I hear the phrase “call of duty,” the popular video game immediately comes to mind. In fact, I’ve...

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What is real power?

Leadership just isn’t what it used to be. Thank goodness! We’ve all known of organizational cultures where the managers’ use of command and control...

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Are you suffering from “rush” syndrome? Take this 7-point quiz

In many workplaces today, there seems to be a reward for looking busy. The more overwhelmed you are, the bigger your payoff. But what...

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Business owners need to be accountable, too

#165043142 / gettyimages.com   One of the more puzzling and precarious realities about how owners lead businesses these days is the vast numbers who...

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Emotional intelligence: Key to our success

I had the recent opportunity to lead a conversation about emotional intelligence, (or emotional quotient — EQ), during a webcast for ATD, the global...

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Learn to delegate

One of the hardest things for emerging leaders to learn is how to let go. Entrepreneurs are notorious for falling into the do it...

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Is this the job you signed up for?

My first leadership post was the most unusual and most unexpected management position that I ever held. When I was a high school senior,...

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Feeling rushed? Break the habit of hurry and overwhelm

Madeline is sitting in her boss’s office, patiently waiting for his full attention so she can preview a client presentation she has to deliver...

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From too many to too few: Construction’s skilled labor shortage

The Great Recession became official in December 2007, and by its end, more than 8.8 million jobs had been lost — 2 million in...

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How will they evaluate you? It’s largely in your hands

Recently I had the pleasure of going on a fishing trip on Lake Michigan with three of my sons. This was our first such...

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3 ways to improve your health through purposeful work

What if you are not presently experiencing much meaning in your life? Here are a few actions you can take.

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Developing leaders: Turning life into learning

According to Bersin by Deloitte, U.S.-based companies invested more the $15 billion in 2013 to develop their leaders. The dollars were spent on a...

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Navigating shadow organizations in the workplace

Your company has a shadow organization, whether you realize it or not. That doesn’t mean that your company is running a spy collective worthy...

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Overcoming obstacles to reinventing yourself

Reinventing ourselves is not easy. In fact, most people don’t stay the course and succeed. Have you ever heard the cynical viewpoint “A leopard...

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Is describing leadership “character” the easy way out?

If you’ve been playing the in leadership space for more than a few minutes on Google, you know that one of the old saws...

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How to be CEO of your own career (and life)

Perhaps you aspire to the corner office, or you want to develop leadership skills that will help advance your career. You can begin to...

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Overworked and overwhelmed? Your answer starts with what you can control

The stress of having too much to do and too little time to get it all done is a wonderfully modern problem. After all,...

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The fear of slowing down

An article this summer in The New York Times quoted extensively from a research study conducted by Silicon Valley psychologist Stephanie Brown which refers...

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10 ways to take charge of your leadership development

When I started in the field of leadership development (when gas was 89 cents a gallon), the model we used looking like this: When...

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6 questions for assessing a prospective employer

For the majority of people, time spent at work far outweighs time spent with friends and family. Deciding whether to accept a job offer...

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Are you a first-time boss? Avoid these 4 pitfalls

So, the promotion finally came through. You’ve joined the management ranks. You’re excited, apprehensive, and itching to get started, all at the same time....