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First 100 Days: The Critical Role a Personal BOD Plays first 100 days / career

A lot has been written recently about having a personal Board of Directors (BOD). It's certainly true that having a group of trusted people you can turn to for counsel is never a bad idea.

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Miles Davis’ Sagacious Advice for Leaders first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

In his autobiography, Miles Davis, the world renowned jazz trumpeter and band leader, claims to have changed…not just his style, but all of music six times. A bold claim to be sure, but...

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Wise and Timeless Career Advice first 100 days / career

Even though it was decades ago, I remember it like it was yesterday.

I was 29 years old, just finishing my Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. While completing my degree, I was doing...

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You Have to Want the Question first 100 days / career

One of my clients is interviewing for a bigger job and he asked me to help him prepare for his interviews. As an aside, it’s gratifying for me to see someone I have been working with be...

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The Predictable Results of Being “Heads Down for the Next 100 Days” first 100 days / career

People say the darnedest things.

When taking a new job, they often tell their friends and family not to expect much of them because they are going to be “heads down for the next 90...

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Management Development and Why You Can’t Fire a Cannon From a Canoe first 100 days / career leadership: managing yourself

A few years ago, I volunteered as the Strength and Conditioning coach for a nationally ranked youth hockey team. I was, at the time, already well-versed in functional, injury prevention oriented...

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How to Handle the "Hit in the Mouth"​ first 100 days / career

For my money, the greatest quote about strategy was not spoken by General Schwarzkopf. It is not in Sun Tzu's Art of War, nor in Musashi's Book of the Five Rings. Genghis Khan didn't say it. Nor...

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