During my career, I’ve observed many talented and smart people who couldn’t build a successful and fulfilling career. Why? They failed to cultivate the most critical aspect of success: Building trustful relationships with key stakeholders. On the other hand, I’ve had the privilege to work with and observe extraordinary individuals and leaders skilled at establishing […]
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When we say “leave your ego at the door,” we are referring to the idea that one should check their sense of self-importance at the “door” before entering a situation or conversation. This means letting go of the need to be right, to be in control, or to be recognized for one’s accomplishments. Not easy,
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Most of us have heard about OKRs. Some of you might even apply them in whatever form in your organization. Originally pioneered by Andy Grove at Intel and later brought to the world by John Doerr with his remarkable and trailblazing work at Google. OKRs, short for Objectives and Key Results, is a collaborative and
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Imagine you’re about to miss an important product launch date, you do not get a critical contract signed within an agreed timeframe, you’ve forgotten to answer an urgent request from one of your key customers, your boss has been calling you three times in the past 30 minutes to get a super urgent analysis before
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You might be familiar with the concept of a “Post-Mortem.” Or if you have a medical background, since health professionals are using it to analyze and learn what caused a patient’s death. In a business context, a post-mortem is used in the form of a meeting or written report that happens at the end of
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A Life Worth Living Requires Healthy Relationships & Belonging Life’s not always easy and rose-colored. It can be tricky, extremely challenging, and pretty draining. For some, it can result in disorientation, depression, and even worse. Fortunately, however, most people are able to find and identify reasons to value their lives. The Meaning of Relationships &
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The past few days have once again demonstrated in a literally “brutal” manner, and at a time when most countries were trying very hard to get over COVID finally, that the world needs to get used to extreme situations, abrupt distortions, and life-threatening challenges. When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine
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Conducting a thoughtful analysis as basis for comprehensive thinking with the objective to formulate a sound plan are critical. It’s a principal requirement of good and responsible management. At the same time, and especially in our fast-paced and ever-changing world, there is not always sufficient time and need for analyzing too broadly and too deeply.
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It’s performance review season! Yep, this time of the year when many organizations ask employees to review their performance of the past year, and then meet with their line managers to have “good and fruitful conversations.” Sounds familiar? Well, as long as most companies have not abandoned this traditional and backward-looking performance appraisal system (which
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If you could turn back time, would you pursue a different career than the one you have now? That’s a question I asked also some days ago on LinkedIN. Here are the results: > 2,510 people casted their vote after 2 days > 60% said that they would go back for a different career if
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