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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
    • Jan 3
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: ‘Great Attrition’ or ‘Great Attraction’? The choice is yours

    A recent McKinsey & Company survey showed a record pace of US workers has been quitting—19 million and counting since April...

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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
    • Mar 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    PODCAST: Grief, loss, burnout: Talking about complex feelings at work

    Leaders have always navigated emotional dynamics in the workplace—but not at the scale and intensity unleashed by the pandemic....

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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
    • Nov 2, 2020
    • 1 min

    VIDEO: The quiet power of introverts

    From BBC Ideas: Are you an introvert? If so, that's great! Animator Sofja Umarik (who is an introvert) looks at how it can be a real...

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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
    • Sep 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: Managing Your Career in a Crisis

    Fear and paralysis can be common in a crisis, but you don’t have to succumb to it—rather, take the opportunity to prepare for new and...

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    KB recommends
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Laughter Will Keep Your Team Connected — Even While You’re Apart

    Videoconferencing has been around for more than 20 years, but until the pandemic, most remote meeting attendees conferenced in from a...

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    KB recommends
    • Jul 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: The Best Leaders Are Versatile Ones

    A recent hbr.org article describes two big challenges characterizing leadership today: the need to juggle a growing series of paradoxical...

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    KB recommends
    • Jul 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Making Sense of the Future After Losing a Job You Love

    A recent forbes.com article tries to make sense of the emotional impact of losing a job you love. Work offers meaningful value and...

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    KB recommends
    • Jun 16, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Bouncing Back Isn't Always Enough

    The well-intentioned adage “You’ll bounce back” may be something you've heard after losing out on a promotion, or going through a...

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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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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Apr 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    ARTICLE: How To Face An Anxiety-Provoking Situation Like A Champion

    Every tough challenge provides an opportunity to build more mental muscle. And each step you take toward becoming mentally stronger is...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Mar 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: Hard Times Are Coming. Here’s How to Build Your Company’s Resilience to Endure Them

    The saying “when the going gets tough, the tough get going” needs an upgrade—because when hard times hit, what we need more than anything...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Feb 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: How to Thrive in the 2020s

    The keys to competitive success in the new decade will be different from those of the past. This interactive bcg.com article explains...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Dec 14, 2019
    • 2 min

    ARTICLE: To Understand The Company Of The Future, Head To A Jazz Club

    If you want to understand how to run a successful business today, you might want to study jazz. Why jazz, and not accounting, business...

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    Karen Boylston recommends
    • Dec 23, 2015
    • 1 min

    ARTICLE & VIDEO: Why Agility Pays

    Over the past decade, McKinsey has studied the impact of a wide range of management practices affecting organizational health based on...

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    • Aug 3, 2015
    • 1 min

    NEW BOOK: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Chose and Execute the Right Approach

    Executives are bombarded with best selling ideas and best practices for achieving competitive advantage, but many of these ideas and...

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