Private Insights on Influence

Executive Mindset: Seven Obstacles

As you strive to develop your executive mindset, keep aware of the obstacles. Then you will have more opportunity to mitigate them, and critically, you will be able to take action now to avoid them troubling you. This will prime you for success, reduce your risks and...

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How to Maximise Your Promotion Prospects

If you’re interested in being promoted, especially to the most senior levels, there are a great many things you need to do. Since I don’t know the specifics of your situation, I cannot predict exactly what you need to do. What I can tell you though, is you probably...

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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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The Influential Executive: Nine Critical Capabilities

To get to the top you have to be good at your job. You also have to be extremely good at influence, especially if you work in a competitive environment where egos, personal agendas and politics are rife. Over the last 15 years I have helped hundreds of senior people...

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