Seth Godin Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

You need to be on a course toward the reality you seek, but bringing on partners is most effective when hope is ascending, not after reality sets in. Understanding this, it's possible to draw a curve of hope and reality, over time.

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ConsultX

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

This list is ordered from most important at the start of the engagement, and a good advisor will be able to develop the ascending elements over time… Desire to improve their business - does the business owner express a desire to improve the profit, growth or value of their business? There are five elements that make for a good client.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 10, 2017

He lists his products and services in ascending order, from least inexpensive to most expensive. She lists her various offerings in ascending order, from a 60-minute strategy call at $299, to monthly direction for creative teams at $8000 per month. She offers a mix of productized consulting and consulting engagements.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The distance from the frontline increases as a leader ascends within an organization threatening the leader's credibility about the work. It has rational and emotional aspects of an individual's expertise and presence. Daily actions and routines can either create or destroy credibility.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 13, 2014

For more information on this year’s CPRS National Summit, Ascend, click here. Interested in attending Melissa’s workshop? Melissa’s workshop will take place on Monday, May 26th 2014 at 2:30pm. To register and attend the conference, click here. A few words from Melissa Agnes.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

An innovative model developed by the Ascend Foundation provides special insight. The Ascend Foundation’s analysis shows that white men (with an EPI of 1.81) are by far the most-represented group in management; executive parity is a ratio of 1.0.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2018

Over the next 100 years, AI and robotic systems will increasingly dominate labor and work, producing necessities and the physical artifacts of human life, enabling more of us to ascend (Arendt did present this as ascending — this is a qualitative value judgment) to the realm of action.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Likewise, the higher you ascend within your organization, the more challenging it becomes to receive fair feedback. The greater the bias, the less useful and fair the feedback. I like asking my mom for feedback, but I must realize that she has a vested interest in being my mom.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2018

This was a key finding in a 2017 report we coauthored for the Ascend Foundation ( “The Illusion of Asian Success” ), analyzing EEOC data on Silicon Valley’s management pipeline. The Ascend Foundation, a pan-Asian organization that published our 2017 paper, was established by a group of pan-Asian accounting partners.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 19, 2018

If he leads with his Mobile Onboarding Teardown at $1,200, and the offers were ascending in price, you would start to measure the following services compared to that smallest price — and they would look much bigger in comparison. Now if you were to put this in reverse, you would get the opposite effect.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

The new reality is epitomized by France’s ascendant far-right political figure, Marine Le Pen, who is now leading in many polls to win the next presidential election. Opposition to greater integration has emerged, with anti-EU parties gaining support in countries as diverse as the United Kingdom, Greece, Germany and France.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

In contrast to much of the press coverage of artificial intelligence , this revolution is not about the ascendance of a sentient android army. So how worried should we be about the modern ascendance of algorithms? Orlagh Murphy/Getty Images. A quiet revolution is taking place. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2018

In fact, as we ascend in our careers — and as global competition further increases — it’s almost certain we’ll be expected to do more and produce more. The responsibilities placed upon us are unlikely to diminish anytime soon.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

These people are thought to be the organization’s most capable, most motivated, and most likely to ascend to positions of responsibility and power. A high-potential employee is usually in the top 5% of employees in an organization.

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Chad Barr

MARCH 17, 2014

Before ascending to my throne of indignation, I had to wonder: had I ever perpetrated this very same crime? Further this is not a victimless crime. What if the reader is wrestling with the precise problem I can solve? The reader has no way to contact me, and we both lose. I read voraciously.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Leaders (mostly male) hypothesized that many women were less ambitious than men, or weren’t capable of ascending to the highest levels of leadership. We started with a business problem: If women comprised nearly half of our workforce, why were we seeing such a drop-off in senior management?

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

Or maybe it’s a visual cue, an ever-ascending ticker count on your app icons or inbox. Is it an email? A reminder on your phone? A calendar invite? Another one. There’s that sound again. Quick, why don’t you just respond right now?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The ascendancy of emerging-market firms is evident in rankings such as the Fortune Global 500; more than 160 of these firms have joined the list since 2000.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

” Indeed, this information raises a serious concern that unless something is done soon to change Millennial men’s attitudes toward women, these men ascending to the C-suite may hinder — rather than advance — current efforts to reduce the discriminatory effects of gender bias.

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Chad Barr

JULY 19, 2011

At best you’ll say that it’s a continuing 360-degree, ascending stair which revolved back upon its own central axis. There’s no need to try to translate a conceptual theme using thousands of words. Try to describe a spiral staircase with your hands at your side. That’s nowhere as effective as saying, “Picture a corkscrew….”.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 6, 2016

” But as you ascend in the organization, the ability to jump higher and faster becomes less important. It can be tempting to invest your time the same way everyone else does — putting in face time at the office, or racing to respond to emails the fastest. At lower levels, that might mark employees as “go-getters.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

This meant he was being groomed for ascendance. Eric, 33, a high-potential vice president at a financial services firm, was elated to be selected by his supervisors to receive executive coaching. His boss wanted him to be a more motivating leader to his team.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

In order to ascend the organizational ranks, such leaders must seek consensus on decisions and drive others through a keen process orientation. Follow-through is key to being seen as leadership material in regions such as Northeast Asia (e.g., Business cycles can take longer as a result.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 3, 2017

Research and experience typically show that narcissists are highly likely to ascend to power. On the one hand, they can be huge assets, maintaining impressive drive and vision and enacting sweeping change through the power of their charisma.

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Henman Performance Executive

APRIL 29, 2011

Everyone who ascends the corporate ladder must learn more about the financial operations of your organization. Without changing their role, title, or compensation, start including these top performers in meetings they don’t need to attend just so they can learn more about what is to come.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Most of the Towers Watson brain trust is located in New York City, headed up by CEO John Haley, who joined the company in 1977 and ascended to his current position in 1998. Towers Watson Consulting Engagement Cost: $200K. TOWERS WATSON CONSULTING ORGANIZATION. Practice Areas.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And, in fact, the more power we have, and the higher we ascend in our careers, the less self-aware we become. As Tasha Eurich writes in her 2017 book, Insight , about 95% of us think we have strong self-awareness, but only about 10% to 15% of us actually possess it.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

Yet the path narrows significantly as executives ascend closer to the top slots. The career question I hear most often from rising senior leaders is this: “How do I get on the C-suite shortlist?” ” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This is similar to the double bind that women experience when ascending to leadership positions: competent and assertive women, who fail to meet the gender role expectation of being kind and empathetic, tend to be evaluated negatively.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

While other browsers are remaining flat or declining in share, Chrome is still ascending, albeit more slowly. If that screenshot reminds you of " Best viewed in Internet Explorer 6 ," you''re not alone. The strategy seems to be working. According to Net Applications, Chrome was in use on 20.6 percent at the beginning of the year.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

He went on to tell me that ever since he ascended (his word) to the CEO slot, women seemed to enjoy his company more (the two managers happened to be female). .” “No,” he said, “did you see how they are with me?” ” I was confused. And concerned. The way he said it just didn’t feel right.

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

We sought to understand the barriers they faced, their strategies for ascending through the organization, and the tools they used to manage significant organizational change efforts and navigate career risks. We conducted in-depth interviews with 59 black women executives who have occupied senior-level positions in U.S. corporations.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

Like the suffragettes and feminists like Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan paved the way for women to even ascend to the type of positions we now hold, it is our job to advocate for positive change in our own worlds first and then the workplace through our example. And helping with creating positive change for the next generation of women.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

The understandable growth of risk management functions and their ascendancy in influencing strategy is important, but only part of the story here. They need to ensure that the right decisions are being made and that every director can defend those decisions when investors come calling with strategies of their own.

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Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Here are four approaches to resilience, in ascending order, from brave to stupid: Don't need it. The choice is to build something that's perfect for today, or to build something that lasts. Because perfect for today no longer means perfect forever. Invest in a network. Create backups. Build a moat.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 24, 2013

And the only possible method for achieving this is to arm the rebels when it seems that Mr. Assad’s forces are ascendant and to stop supplying the rebels if they actually seem to be winning. ". Luttwak continues with a hugely controversial set of statements " Maintaining a stalemate should be America’s objective. Stalemate Option Foolhardy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

But this ascendancy is under threat. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows. Political sentiment has turned against globalization and the political and economic policies that promoted it.

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