In our attention deficit world, how does one get noticed?Ā Develop a leadership brand. You can no longer rely on your hard work and great results to get you promoted.Ā A client of mine worked his whole life getting all the degrees and certifications he could. He got on all the right committees and demonstrated […]
John Rampton – Success.com Ā December 31, 2015 Leaders have a lot to do, so sometimes they forget thingsāimportant, big-picture things. Leaders might seem superhuman at times. They arenāt. Theyāre mortals, just like anyone else. And with a lot on their plates, caught up in the details of their role, they can forget to do thingsābig-picture […]
Many organizations will discover too late that survival mode is no longer adequate. A shift has occurred, requiring leaders to exercise more than situational awareness used to identify immediate short-term financial trends. Leaders in the New Normal 2.0 must open their eyes to emerging, even sometimes barely detectable, long-term shifts in the societal and global […]
For reasons that include fear for our own well being, companies that measure and reward individual instead of team results, a new generation of employees who feel more entitled than their older peers, and a US culture that reveres individual success, it appears weāve entered the age of narcissism. Letās face it, some amount of […]
As I boarded the first of three flights from Atlanta to Bangkok my only thought was how I was going to best serve my client.Ā Traveling internationally had become routine.Ā Little did I know that the teacher would become the student and I would be served up lessons I could never have seen coming. Twenty […]
Speaking finance improves career opportunities After passing customs I walk into the main part of the Tianjin, China airport and enter a world of people speaking words I canāt understand and signs I canāt read. I must rely completely on my interpreters to help me make basic decisions.Ā (Asking for advice on where to site-see, […]
The first question I was asked during my first day of college was āwhatās your major?āĀ I thought the purpose of college was to explore ideas not limit options. I was given a college advisor who got the unenviable assignment of dealing with us misfits he labeled āundecidedā. The pressure to specialize extends into business […]
Your business goals are probably already set. But, how about those for your personal development?Ā And, what about re-evaluating those goals you have already set? Often, great plans start with a bang but end with a fizzle. So, why do well-intended people set goals but donāt reach them and what should we be doing differently? […]
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