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Defeating the Competition, Bad Habits, and Self-Doubt
7min
As we approach the halfway point of 2021, some of us may find that we’re settling back into some bad habits that defined our lives before the shake-up of the last 18 months. So, how do we confront challenges, stagnant habits, and a lack of inspiration or motivation to excel in our professional goals? In […]
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The Power of Changing Your Industry, Your World, and Your Own Habits
7min
Change could certainly be considered a top candidate for the word that best sums up what we’ve all experienced over 2020 and 2021. Our world changed, turned upside down by a rampant pandemic. Businesses and industries were transformed. And our personal habits were forced to change, first when social distancing became the norm and then […]
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How Can We Think More Clearly, Innovate More Often, and Find Clarity?
7min
Thomas Edison had the following quote displayed on a sign at his famous laboratory at Menlo Park: “There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labour of thinking.” For all of the literary world’s focus on productivity and success, there aren’t quite as many places to turn when […]
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Be Free, Be Agile, & Be Yourself – Three Keys to Success in Life and Business
7min
We’re living in a time where ‘business advice’ comes at us from every angle. It seems like every business leader, author, or thinker has their own piece to add to the growing pile of business-centric self-help guidance that can become so deafening that it’s hard to know where to begin. In this Edge, we’re focusing […]
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Ethics Are Evolving – What Does this Mean for Employees and Businesses?
7min
In this Edge, we explore how ethics are transforming businesses, consumer behavior, and the way we make judgements about each other and the world. From the workplace to customer-facing branding, ethical considerations have completely changed the way companies treat their employees, their images, and their overall company goals.
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Is It Possible to Navigate an Increasingly Unpredictable Future?
7min
Is attempting to predict the future a fool’s errand? Or is there power in trying to anticipate what will come next and planning how you’ll react? The truth may lie somewhere in the middle. While the future is more uncertain now than perhaps at any time in history, there’s still tremendous value in developing the […]
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Rebuild Your Team
7min
When a business needs to reinvent itself or be reenergized, leaders can take the reins by focusing on their teams. This Edge supports these efforts through topics including setting up a team for self-management, guiding a team through a recovery phase, building strong relationships with team members, learning to lead as a high-potential leader, and […]
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Successful Leaders Build Good Cultures
7min
Much of the satisfaction of being a leader can be traced to building a workplace culture that provides fulfillment for those they lead, which in turn provides self-fulfillment. In this Edge, we look at culture as the collective energy of the team, recognizing resistance in ourselves and others and what’s behind it, what a workplace […]
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Have Confidence in Your Ability to Succeed
9min
A lack of belief in yourself can dramatically limit your potential. The effects can be obvious in your professional and personal experiences. This Executive Edge looks at how to believe in yourself, seek self-knowledge, and believe in your ability to lead; and also how to project confidence, make smooth mental transitions, and build your personal […]
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Build a Pipeline of Leaders
9min
What characteristics, skills and capabilities does your company count on in its leaders and does that criteria anticipate the company’s needs for the near and distant future? In this issue of Executive Edge, the focus is on how to fill a leadership talent pool, succession management, critical elements for developing leaders, integrating development and learning […]
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Reach for the Rewards of Diversity
9min
Diversity in the workplace has proven to add value in decision-making, innovation and performance. But much of its success depends upon a company’s culture and leadership. This Executive Edge considers insider-outsider dynamics, fluent leadership, cultural intelligence, fighting unconscious bias, and managing diversity as a transglobal leader. To expand value for their companies, leaders should reach […]
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Working on Leadership Inside Out
To achieve leadership success, it’s important to recognize what influences and shapes you as a leader. In this Edge, we urge you to take a hard look at who you are in order to find out what may be holding you back from your highest leadership potential. Learn what it means to develop self-awareness, to […]
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