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  • The Mindset to Face Career Change
    7min

    If you’ve ever desired a career change, it can evoke a mix of excitement and frustration. But change doesn’t have to be terrifying or depressing. It can present an opportunity for something better if you approach it with a positive mindset. In this month’s Edge, we explore three authors and their systems for handling such […]

  • Make More of Yourself While Asking Less of Yourself
    7min

    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 […]

  • Uncertainty Is Inevitable. How Can We Navigate Through It?
    7min

    Uncertainty is a fundamental aspect of our lives, whether we like it or not. The future is always uncertain, and we never know what lies ahead. However, how we deal with uncertainty is what sets us apart from others. It can be daunting but can also be an opportunity for growth and development. In a […]

  • Leadership Over Yourself, Leadership Over Your Health
    7min

    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 […]

  • Working, Leading, & Living in the AI Era
    7min

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining popularity among businesses everywhere, on the strength of new and more advanced forms like ChatGPT. In this Edge, we will explore how embracing AI can help leaders through the lens of three recently published books on the subject of AI and leadership – AI Factor: How to Apply Artificial […]

  • Public Speaking is Public Being
    7min

    What does improving your public speaking really mean? Does it mean you’ll make more sales? Convince people to see things your way? Those are just effects. The purpose of mastering public speaking is much broader— it’s about taking control of your own voice and making what you think and feel on the inside clearer and […]

  • Productivity for a Better Life, Not Just a Better Career
    7min

    We all understand what productivity is. It’s doing more, accomplishing more, and getting more out of our allotted time in a given day. Productivity is the way we turn ideas or goals into finished products. But that all describes what productivity is, not what productivity is for. That’s where we often miss the point. Productivity […]

  • Email Your Way to Success
    7min

    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 […]

  • Why We Need Managers – And How to Be the Kind of Manager We Need
    7min

    Everybody loves leaders. We read all the leadership books, listen to all the leadership podcasts, and soak up all the knowledge and wisdom we can about what makes a leader truly great. But managers? Those we have fallen a bit out of love with. The much-maligned manager is actually an essential role that’s not done […]

  • Mastering Digital Marketing (Without the Marketing Degree)
    7min

    Nowadays, digital marketing is less of an industry and more of an entire universe. As the tools we use to market ourselves online have become more powerful and widespread, choosing betweenthem has also become more complicated. Where do you start? How do you know that someone knows what they’re talking about when they claim to […]

  • Teams, Trust, and Talking About Culture
    7min

    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 […]

  • Overcoming Burnout: It’s About Much More than the Bottom Line
    7min

    Burnout. The word alone likely evokes negative feelings in anyone who reads it, because the fact is we’ve probably all experienced it. We sit down at our desk or enter our workplace and simply feel lifeless, like we’ve been running a marathon and simply can’t go another step. Or maybe we’re going through the motions, […]

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