Power • Influence • Impact

Developing Your Executive Career

As an executive, or a talented individual heading for the executive level, your first priority is always to deliver results and meet expectations, in your current role. I’m sure you’ll agree that this is no easy task in today’s climate. Yet you’ll also agree that...

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The Executive Mindset

If you aspire to become an executive, want to be selected as one, and want to succeed at the highest levels, you need to develop and cultivate the right mindset and begin to think like an executive. Exactly what this means depends on the environment, your personality...

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Simple Rules for Influence: Part 3

Finally in this series, I want to focus on three rules that will help guide your behaviour as you're out there doing your influencing. As you're going out there, talking to the people that you need to influence, starting to move forward on your objective, these three...

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Working With a Micro-Manager

Working with (or under) a boss who micro-manages is tough. The lack of trust they are displaying, or rather, you are feeling, can be completely demoralising - at best! And this is far more common than you may realise. Most people in these situations seem to think they...

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Five Reasons Why You May Lack Visibility

If you are struggling for visibility, find yourself overlooked when it comes to promotions or new opportunities, or otherwise failing to attract the right sort of attention from senior people, you have a big problem on your hands. I’m not going to sugar coat it...

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When should you be autocratic as a leader?

Contrary to what many people would like to believe, there is a place for being autocratic in the workplace as I pointed out in my article Command and Control: Alive and Kicking. The challenge though, is knowing when to be autocratic, and how to do it without upsetting...

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