Strategic thinking is simply the ability to plan ahead. Find ways to set goals, prepare for meetings, and manage your business or career strategically.
If you want to be seen as a leader, you need to act like one first. Being seen as a leader is a choice you make. From the outside, leadership looks like a role or a post that your organization gives you. Nothing could be further from the truth. People in leadership roles are there as a result of their decision to be leaders, and not the other way around. No one but you can make you a leader. So,…
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News quiz: Who is publicly advocating for private investors to balance their investment returns with “the prosperity and security of their fellow citizens”? If you answered BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the head of one of Wall Street’s flagship firms, you were right. But if you didn’t know, you might be tempted to answer Bernie Sanders or someone from Occupy Wall Street. As head of one of Wall Street’s flagship firms, Larry Fink made more than one headline by focusing his…
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Only twice in my life I’ve said to my husband: “I will never have dinner with those people again.” The first time was years ago. Two rising stars in my husband’s industry, a husband and wife team, invited us and two other couples to their house for a dinner party. I was seven months pregnant and still teaching, which made me the odd one out on both counts. They talked shop all night until one terrifying moment over the main…
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Actually, I have no idea how Amazon.com got its name. Imagining how it got its name illustrates the power of an image–painting a picture in words. An image is something you can perceive with at least one of your five senses. It helps convey something abstract you have in mind in a way that is concrete to others. So, I imagine that Jeff Bezos goes to his marketing firm and says, “I need a name and corporate identity for my…
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