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The Next Act—Saying “Goodbye” to Corporate Life

Dec 2, 2015

If you’ve decided it’s time for something new in your professional life, and if that something new goes beyond a simple job change to a vocation change, it pays to be prepared. You’ll be balancing simultaneous equations that include: reinventing yourself and your skills; starting up and building a client base or book of business, and navigating an emotional roller coaster with some high-highs, step drops and the occasional corkscrew that will find you momentarily upside down and disoriented.

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Coming Attractions at the Management Excellence Blog

Nov 30, 2015

There’s a lot of new and a fair amount of new and improved coming soon at the Management Excellence blog. From the return of the Leadership Caffeine podcast to the new and improved Leadership Caffeine e-News, the Holiday Book List and the 2016 Coaching Calls Series, I’m excited to support your professional development efforts with all of these vehicles!

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Assessing Power and Politics in Your Organization

Nov 10, 2015

Much of the writing about leadership leaves out two of the most critical topics: power and politics. That’s a problem, because the political environment defines the playing field and those with the power dominate the organization’s agenda. Ignoring these facts of organizational life is a formula for futility. Here’s a checklist of 10 questions to get you started on forming a better picture of your firm’s political environment:

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Just One Thing—The Future of Work Now Arriving

Nov 6, 2015

From radically changing business models to rampant creative destruction driven by digitization and globalization to a world where ideas are the primary form of capital and the purveyors of ideas move freely through this friction-free environment (think: gig economy), this emerging world of work and career has little resemblance to the one of even a mere decade-ago.

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The Next Act—Pivot to Focus on Your Superpower

Oct 29, 2015

In the dozens of discussions I’ve held with 50-somethings on this Next Act career topic, I can literally count on one hand the number of individuals who expressed satisfaction with their work. It seems that after several decades of hard work, people are growing tired of the corporate grind. The most common answer to, “What’s next?” has been, “retirement” and, “play more golf.” If chasing a little white ball around a lawn doesn’t do it for you, it’s time to focus on making the pivot from where you are at to something that leverages your superpower.

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10 Ideas to Help Deal with the Abusive Boss

Oct 11, 2015

Health Warning: there’s no easy method for dealing with an abusive boss. Sometimes, the next exit ramp is the best approach. And sometimes circumstances require you to stay and attempt to cope. Here are 10 ideas to consider when striving to cope with an abusive boss:

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The Next Act—Answering The Wake-Up Call

Oct 4, 2015

For most of the later career re-inventors I’ve worked with, the wake-up call wasn’t so much a single trigger event as it was a confluence of several issues. It’s a big decision to leave behind something you’ve been doing for decades. It may be the best decision for you, but a bit of planning goes a long way. Here are 9 suggestions for anyone considering answering the career-reinvention wake-up call:

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The Next Act—for Later Career Leaders

Sep 21, 2015

New and emerging leaders are our future. It’s essential to support their development as they take the reins in our challenging world. They are and will remain the focal point of my content here at Management Excellence. However, there’s an audience whose needs in my opinion are grossly under-served in the career and leadership blogging and writing ecosystem: the later-career (read: over-50) senior leaders and executives. With this post, I’m announcing a new blog feature focused on the needs of this experienced audience.

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