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    KB recommends
    • May 2
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: Design for Your Strengths

    In their efforts to compete, business strategists often forget a basic principle: Build from your strengths. The most successful...

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    KB recommends
    • Apr 1
    • 5 min

    ARTICLE: Family Ghosts in the Executive Suite

    Professional growth can get stymied for many reasons, but one of the most important is rarely discussed: contending with ghosts from our...

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    • Mar 1
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: How Great Leaders Steer Clear Of Unconscious Traps In Strategic Planning

    Most boards and senior executives engage in routine strategic planning exercises, but they tend to overstate how well they hold...

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    KB recommends
    • Feb 1
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: Can you master the inner game of leadership?

    Though many people are loath to admit it, leadership is very difficult. Faced with the ever-shifting variables of leadership, people...

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    KB recommends
    • Oct 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Why Leadership Trust Is Critical in Times of Change and Disruption

    Whether it’s leading teams in the office, remotely, or a hybrid of both, it’s critical for leaders to build and maintain trust with their...

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    KB recommends
    • Aug 2, 2021
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: Winning the ’20s in an Accelerated Post-COVID World

    COVID-19 and surrounding events have underlined the need for learning and adaptation and made success in the remainder of this decade...

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    KB recommends
    • Jul 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: Research: Adding Women to the C-Suite Changes How Companies Think

    Studies have shown that companies adding females to their executive ranks are more profitable and socially responsible, among many other...

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    KB recommends
    • Jun 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Is Anyone Getting Along with Their Boss?

    Since the pandemic began, two-thirds of US workers surveyed by HR firm Motivosity complain their relationship with their boss has been...

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    KB recommends
    • Apr 1, 2021
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: Why the first five minutes of a meeting shape its outcome

    Meetings can waste precious time, invite poor decisions, add to exhaustion, and fray relationships. But let’s face it: meetings are a key...

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    KB recommends
    • Jan 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    BOOK: Great Leaders Realize They Don’t Even Know What They Don’t Know

    Before Covid-19 forced employers to padlock their doors while employees sheltered at home, business leaders didn’t have to look far for...

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    KB recommends
    • Dec 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Women CEOs Reach an All-Time High, But…

    In the middle of a torturing pandemic, we've seen some milestones that raise hope over gender diversity. On September 14, 2020, Linda...

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    KB recommends
    • Oct 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Are Your Leaders Ready for the Next Normal?

    I have been using the Leadership Versatility Index, a 360 instrument for the assessment and development of versatility, with my clients...

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    KB recommends
    • Jun 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: The Importance of Leadership in Uncertain Times

    In extraordinary times like these, people turn to their leaders for guidance and reassurance more than ever before. Guy M. Beaudin at RHR...

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    KB recommends
    • May 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    ARTICLE: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership & COVID 19

    According to a recent article on LinkedIn by Gerald T. Hannah, Ph.D., author of The Art of Control and President and CEO of Gerald Hannah...

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    • Jan 21, 2020
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: How to Get Noticed by Your Boss’s Boss

    You’re bright. You have good ideas, insights, and the ambition to take on more. But you aren’t getting the opportunities you want, and...

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    • Jan 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    ARTICLE: Want Higher Profits? Hire a Female CEO, CFO

    Diversity at the top, it seems, can pay. Firms with female CEOs and CFOs produce superior stock price performance compared to the market...

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    • Dec 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: 7 Keys to Becoming a Remarkably Effective Leader

    For many businesspeople, the last thing you want to worry about (or do) is managing people. You want to get out, meet customers, create...

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    • Nov 2, 2019
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: Are You at Risk of a Mid-Career Rut?

    In a study coordinated by Harvard Business Review of 500 college-educated professionals, research found that people need the most help...

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    • Oct 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: For Leaders, Decency Is Just as Important as Intelligence

    In a recent hbr.org article, Dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Bill Boulding, describes how successful leaders today...

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    • Sep 3, 2019
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Align with Your Star Employees

    Reflect on your career and write down your five biggest leadership disappointments. According to an article by Susan Cramm on...

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