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Personal Development

What skills to develop to best hold your role as a manager or leader? What tools to rely on? What subjects to put into practice?

Developing better change leaders

Aaron De Smet, Johanne Lavoie, Elizabeth Schwartz Hioe

The risk of underestimating the soft skills required to manage change.

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To Have the Most Impact, Ask the Right Questions

Chris Musselwhite, Tammie Plouffe

Leaders can develop their influence and impact by asking the right questions.

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To a better understanding: The leadership odyssey explored

Kanina Blanchard

Developing the aptitudes of a leader is more of an odyssey than a linear journey: managers must triumph in many trials, remain focused on their objective and resist temptation.

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Coming Through When It Matters Most

Heidi K. Gardner

Just when teams should be most innovative and look to the experts, they often prefer play it safe with conventional and sometimes inappropriate solutions.

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What’s Luck Got to Do With It?

Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen

Learn how to capitalize on your luck.

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Productivity, Multitasking, and the Death of the Phone

Susie Jackson, Sherry Turkle

The risks of communication increasingly centered around writing, and with less room for face-to-face discussion.

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Boost Power Through Body Language

Amy J.C. Cuddy

A self-development video to understand how our gestures affect the hormone levels—which, in turn, raise our self-confidence and reduce our stress.

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How to Successfully Manage Opposing Strategies

Roger L. Martin

In this article, the “father” of integrative thinking describes how to apply it using a case study.

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Managing Yourself: A Smarter Way to Network

Rob Cross, Robert J. Thomas

Advice to activate your network and use it to overcome your daily challenges.

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Make Luck Work in Your Favor

Anthony K. Tjan

Three character traits that make it possible to increase the likelihood of luck..

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