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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?

Stop Setting Goals You Don’t Actually Care About

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Why it is better to set a small number of objectives, which we will really strive to achieve.

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Assembling Your Personal Board of Advisors

Yan Shen, Richard D. Cotton, Kathy E. Kram

The different types of advisors one needs in order to have a well-rounded entourage, each with a well-defined role and added value.

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Here's how the ‘self-management’ system that Zappos is using actually works

Richard Feloni

An article that concretely describes how Zappos was organized according to the principles of Holacracy.

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How to Be Good at Managing Both Introverts and Extroverts

Rebecca Knight

How to take account of the differences between introvert and extravert personalities to ensure the performance of everyone.

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Beyond Automation

Thomas H. Davenport, Julia Kirby

An article that proposes five strategies to make the most of the “augmented human” in the age of AI.

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How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work

Rebecca Knight

A few pieces of advice to best prepare for a delicate discussion.

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Balancing “We” and “Me”: The Best Collaborative Spaces Also Support Solitude

Christine Congdon, Donna Flynn, Melanie Redman

Fitting the workspace to encourage both teamwork and concentrated effort.

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Why leadership-development programs fail

Pierre Gurdjian, Thomas Halbeisen, Kevin Lane

The four common mistakes that hamper the effectiveness of leadership-development program.

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Managing Change, One Day at a Time

Keith Ferrazzi

The author identifies similarities in anchoring practices between the Alcoholics Anonymous’ proven method and change management in business organizations.

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Self-Promotion for Professionals from Countries Where Bragging Is Bad

Dorie Clark, Andy Molinsky

Numerous cultures promote humbleness and the collective—which does not prevent people from needing to actively manage their professional reputation to succeed. How can you deal with this paradox?

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