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Glass Elevators: Why Elevator Speeches Matter

Let's Grow Leaders

Until… a good friend of mine in Finance (p.s. Yesterday I attended an important meeting with important people. I was not scheduled to speak. always have a good friend in Finance) batted the conversation my way. What’s our channel’s mission? How are our results? What’s our team best at? How have we improved?

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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

For example, being able to think strategically in the high-tech industry involves a nuanced understanding of strategy topics such as network effects, platforms, and standards. In the utilities sector, it involves mastery of the economic implications of (and room for strategic maneuvers afforded by) the regulatory regime.

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Understanding Leadership for Career and Executive Coaching

International Coach Academy

Again, I was taught to do what was asked and to prioritize others’ interests over mine. The last but not least from Jo Mill’s book is to elicit support from others and establish your own network. Habit 5 is to put your job before your career. This understanding will also help me coach my clients to see things in a different way.

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Navigating Bias and Coaching Ethics in the Age of AI

International Coaching Federation

An Example Imagine you and a colleague are active on a social network of job seekers, such as LinkedIn. While equally qualified, your colleague sees more high-quality job postings than you have. This disparity makes you wonder: What information did the site use to generate the recommendations in the first place?

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Rules vs. Re-imagine

International Coach Academy

He remarked, “ We seem content to dig for coal in a gold mine.” The small yet alarming ‘canary in the coal mine’ was that consumer tastes were moving, the way this commodity would be consumed was evolving, and with it a change in the rules of the game. In reflecting on this observation, it was clear the reasons for our contentment.

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Accountability for White Anti-Racist Coaching

International Coach Academy

But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. This can take place in multiple ways while coaches engage in coaching conversations, relationships, and networks. It also requires bottom-up awareness, recognition, and commitment by individual coaches to be proactively anti-racist.

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How to get funding from deluded, self-congratulating investors

Penelope Trunk

Three of those companies were mine. Cultivate a network. And I continue to cultivate a male network just in case. From 1997 to 2012 just 1% of VC funded companies had female founders. People tell me it’s much better for women now, but statistically , this is BS. So men love a manic pixie dream girl founder.