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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Hector Garcia & Frances Miralles According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai-a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai-where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can…
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Your First 100 Days In a New Executive Job: Powerful First Steps on the Path to Greatness
Robert Hargrove Whether you are a newly elected president, CEO, or executive at any level, what you do in your first 100 days will be absolutely pivotal to your success or failure. Your First 100 Days in a New Executive Job will help you to seal your leadership, build a team you can count on, and have…
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The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
Michael D. Watkins Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made…
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Assimilating New Leaders: The Key to Executive Retention
Diane Downey More than 70 percent of newly hired senior executives leave their positions within the first two years. The reasons for this are numerous. Often, the hiring organization expects a new executive–especially one who arrives with a high price tag attached–to hit the ground running, with minimal assistance or supervision. The “new leader” may…
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Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
Herminia Ibarra You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra—an expert on professional leadership and…
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Trinity University Partners with Greene and Associates, Inc.
New Alumni Career Engagement Office to help empower lifelong growth for Trinity’s alumni Greene and Associates, Inc. is proud to partner with Trinity University as they launch the Alumni Career Engagement (ACE) Office, which offers innovative programming designed to support and empower alumni through all stages of their career. Designed to meet alumni wherever they…
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Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
Herminia Ibarra Strategies that successful career changers use-and how to make them work for you. Nearly all of us have entertained the notion of changing careers. Feeling burned out at work, unfulfilled, or just plain unhappy with whatever we’re doing, we long to reinvent ourselves on a new and different career path. But how do…
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Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life
Patty Azzarello Patty Azzarello became the youngest general manager at Hewlett-Packard at age thirty-three, ran a $1 billion software business at thirty-five, and became a CEO at thirty-eight-all without turning into a self-centered, miserable jerk. In Rise, Azzarello shares the insider secrets to advancing your career (while having a life) in three practical steps: Do Better:…
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Executive Presence 2.0: Leadership in an Age of Inclusion
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, PhD Nearly a decade ago, economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett cracked the code of executive presence (EP). Drawing on complex data and in-depth interviews with senior executives from sectors as different as finance and fashion, she demonstrated that EP is a potent mix of gravitas, communication, and appearance. But EP has evolved. Black…
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The Chief Executive Operating System: The Essential Playbook for Success in the CEO Role
Joel Trammell & Sharif Sakr For many leaders, becoming CEO is the ultimate career achievement. But once you get there, you haven’t summited Mount Everest – you’re only at base camp. Now it’s up to you to learn the unique set of skills required to do the CEO job effectively. And make no mistake, they…
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