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Not Your Mad Men Career Ladder
Way back, before most of us were working, you got a job with a company and you stayed with that company–making steady progression–until you retired. You were, of course, a man. If you got fired, you had done something pretty… Continue reading
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Manage Your Resistance
Put Your Leader Hat On Who would you rather work with if you’re implementing a new change in your organization? Would you rather work with someone who has been there for ten years–who knows his/her way around the organization, who… Continue reading
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Create a Stakeholder Plan For Your Career
I’ve been working a lot with Stakeholder Plans for large organization change lately, and I was thinking that it would be a good idea to create one for a career plan. For those who haven’t had the pleasure of creating… Continue reading
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Promoted! Now What?
Congratulations! You just got promoted. Or you just got reorganized into a new department. Or you just got a new boss. How do you make this a step in the right direction and keep from crashing and burning. Ok, crashing… Continue reading
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Appreciate What You’ve Got
This is all going to end. I know this doesn’t come as news to most of you, but everything we have is quite transient. Possessions (think hurricane/fire/tornado), health, and even life itself. There are two ways to approach this fact. … Continue reading
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Get Your ‘Get Up and Go’
I spent much of Sunday morning watching a few hundred people participate in their first triathlon. It was sixty-something degrees and drizzling. What would possess these people—all ages, shapes and sizes—to come out in the rain to inflict discomfort on… Continue reading
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How to Increase Your Visibility in Your Organization
Who Knows Who You Are? One of the most important things to realize as you work your way up the ladder at your organization is that other people are rarely as aware of you as you think. You work hard. … Continue reading
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Face What’s Holding You Back
What Do You Think is Holding You Back? What do you tell yourself about what is holding you back? You need another degree? Your boss doesn’t like you? You have to relocate for the next step? You’re too old? Too… Continue reading
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Career Accelerants
Do are you know people who are about your age, have about the same experience, and aren’t more talented/smart/capable than you, but who are more successful in their career than you? Are you puzzled about what they have that you… Continue reading
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You Have To Start To Succeed
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it. I saw this quote yesterday and LOVED it. I searched the Internet to try to find the author unsuccessfully, but discovered in the process that this… Continue reading
Jo McDermott 