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October 2024 Leadership Development Carnival
It’s time for another installment of the Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to Weaving Influence and the Lead Change for organizing some great posts from some remarkable leadership writers. If you're new to blog Carnivals, these represent a collection of...
What does “ownership at work” mean?
Key Takeaways: “Ownership” is more than a corporate buzzword—it’s a layered concept that varies depending on your role, from executing a task to being accountable for an entire project’s success. In today’s world of fluid careers, where professionals shift between...
What If The Glass Ceiling Isn’t What We Think It Is?
Key Takeaways: The traditional view of the glass ceiling as a boys’ club barrier still holds truth, but it’s not the whole story—gender bias exists, yet it’s no longer just about women being excluded. Simply getting more women to the top won’t automatically change...
Why Playing Small Doesn’t Serve You Or Your Company
This guest post from Laurie Erdman reminds us that even though we are often encouraged to play small and create a work environment where I staffs can play small too, this helps nobody. It takes courage to play big. Where can you play bigger than you do today? ~Dana...
The Upside of Office Politics
Key Takeaways: Feeling like a victim of office politics is more common than you think—but staying stuck in that mindset keeps you from recognizing your power and learning the rules of the game. Office politics isn’t evil; it’s just human dynamics in action—who gets to...
Manage your own career – advice from Sharon Miller
Key Takeaways: Sometimes we think we're steering our careers, but in reality, we might just be going along for the ride—letting employers, bosses, or life circumstances nudge us off course without realizing it. Acting out of frustration or urgency—like leaping from...
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Leadership
Why is Thought Leadership, “Leadership?”
One of the cool things about modern discussions of leadership is that we now recognize that “leadership” is available to everyone, at every level of every kind of organization – or no organization at all. Anyone can lead and can even start a movement, simply by...
The secret to entrepreneurial leadership — even if you’re not an entrepreneur
The U.S. has a love affair with entrepreneurship, and it’s no big surprise. Our founding mythology is built on the stories of loners, tribes and rebels. Entrepreneurship is the ultimate definition of modern freedom — accountability only to yourself. No more “workin’...
Personal Development Plan for Leadership: Get Out of the Weeds and Bring Out Your Best Self
When I was early in my career, I sought leadership positions because I felt compelled to achieve my higher purpose through my career. I set out on a personal development plan for leadership believing it would make me a better, and more impactful person. But I soon...
Mentoring
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Career Advice
No One Likes Me” – Really?
We all know how to deal with rejection - by rejecting it! Marcia does a fabulous job of helping us understand not only why a "no one likes me" attitude can be part of our problem, and she gives practical advice for how we can stop playing this head game with...
Want An Executive Job? 4 Tricks To Get Out Of The Weeds
In a previous post about job interview tips, I outlined the findings of several research studies about advancing your career – especially for professional women in leadership who want to land a C-suite executive job. The research basically pointed up the...
Executive Communications: Start with the Bottom Line
Every single one of my coaching clients face challenges with executive communications in one form or another. The most common contexts in which these issues come up include these two dimensions of personal branding and executive presence: Communicating in an executive...
Women in Leadership
6 Dynamics of Transformation – for Your Business and Your Life
Good leaders need to be reasonable managers, able to make sure the important stuff gets done from day to day, but a true leader’s potential is discovered and exercised during times of business transformation. It is in those times that the leaders truly change the world.
3 Steps To Escape The Double Bind Of The Female Boss
Women make great leaders, but do they always make a great bosses? Yes, that’s a trick question. No one is a good boss because of their gender any more than because of their race, religion or geography of origin. But if you had a peek into my inbox over the last month,...
Women Have Always Been Great Leaders. Why Do We Need to Prove It?
Women have always been great leaders. We just don’t talk or hear about them. Sometimes I’ll read articles about why women should be leaders, as if we need an argument upon argument to support women’s leadership. I have noticed that some of these articles focus on...
Diversity & Inclusion
Women CEO’s – Myths and Messages From The Top, an Infographic
As life at the corporate top goes, women have come a long way — but has it been far enough? That’s a question that intrigued Motif Investing, which created an infographic titled “Women CEOs — Myths and Messages From the Top” to illustrate the current state of female...
Women Advancing The Workforce [nfographic]
Although we've made great strides over the last hundred years in defining equality and in blurring the line between genders and their roles in society, there aren't that many women in leadership positions. Well the trend is finally upon us and more and more women are...
Is Sexism Still Holding Us Back?
The discussions about women in leadership usually don't point the finger at sexism by men directly these days, and with good reason. This article from Kathryn helps us understand how today's sexist cultural trends are much more complex than it's "Mad Men" stereotype....
