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Champion Urgency and Growth
Across industries, organizations are pressed to strategize for growth consistently and intently to remain relevant and competitive. In this Edge, we look into how organizations and their leaders can see opportunities for growth and the importance of working with a fierce sense of urgency. It includes how to capture people’s attention to deliver a message […]
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What If Leadership Isn’t What We Think?
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Is there any more charged word in business than ‘leadership’? Just the mention of it probably elicited some sort of emotional response in you as a reader. We’ve all read the guides to leadership that tell us to act a certain way around others, follow certain steps, and create environments that lead to results. But, […]
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Teams, Trust, and Talking About Culture
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Organizational culture is a hot topic, but sometimes we need to start on a smaller scale. After all, though we’re all part of organizations both big and small, the team is the unit we interact with the most on a daily basis. So how can we make sure our teams are connecting, engaging with each […]
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How We Think is How We Work, Love & Live. Is It Time to Rethink Our Thinking?
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Every day, our lives are filled with conversations: interactions we have with strangers, connections we share with our closest friends, loved ones, and family members. But the person we actually talk to the most is ourselves. While we may not speak out loud (at least, not all the time), we’re constantly interacting with the internal […]
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The Job Market is Changing. Our Concept of Career Success Should Change With It.
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We are currently experiencing one of the most unique and uniquely challenging job markets in recent history. Companies are struggling to retain workers, and workers are searching for jobs and careers that will not only fulfill their salary needs in an ever-more-expensive world but also give them fulfillment, flexibility, and yes, even joy in their […]
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Leadership Over Yourself, Leadership Over Your Health
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At a time when we are all juggling multiple responsibilities and facing constant pressure in our professional and personal lives, it can be easy to neglect our own wellbeing. But taking care of our physical and mental health is essential not only for our personal happiness, but also for our success in our careers and […]
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Make More of Yourself While Asking Less of Yourself
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Considering the wide range of self-development books we all read, it can often seem like they offer conflicting advice. For every book that conveys the importance of banning distractions to achieve more, there’s another that implores us to give ourselves grace and be okay with doing less. But these books really don’t conflict at all […]
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Burnout is Real. Are There Real Methods Out There for Solving It?
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Working professionals have never been challenged harder to maintain mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Work-related stress has reached unprecedented levels, with nearly 70% of people experiencing emotional and physical fatigue related to internal and external stressors. And that’s before the pandemic showed up on the scene. Declining job performance, dissatisfaction, burnout, and harmful levels of […]
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When the New Normal Is Constantly New (and Never Normal)
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We entered 2020 with naive optimism, having no idea of the disruptive forces of the pandemic that were soon to come. In 2021, many of us thought things couldn’t possibly get any crazier – until they did. Now, many of us carry a certain cautiousness. But even as many of the sources of upheaval that […]
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Maintaining a High Level of Trust
Most C-suite executives and managers do not think about the organizational and societal consequences of low trust. However, the repercussions of low trust within an organization can be unfavorable to the culture, production and profits. In this issue of the Executive Edge, we look at how to maintain a high level of trust so that […]
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Strengthen Your Personal Communication Skills
It’s not always what you say, but how you say it that can determine effective communication. To communicate your message well, face-to-face, it is important to pay attention to your word choice, voice levels and cadence, as well as body language. How should you communicate without bias? How much should you say in a meeting? […]
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Email Your Way to Success
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In the era of productivity apps like Slack, Teamwork, Asana, this was supposed to be the period when we finally said goodbye to email. And yet, email just keeps hanging around. It’s comfortable, it’s familiar, it’s (somewhat) efficient, and it combines short-form communication with the ability to craft more thoughtful, long-form content. But just like […]
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