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From Overwhelm to Influence: Expanding Leaders’ Capacity to Navigate Complex Relationships
Leading in a Tangle of Relationships Bumped up two weeks, Engineering insists on another sprint, and HR reports that yesterday’s hybrid-work tweak is already eroding trust. Green-light one request and you alienate another group; stall, and everyone wonders whether you have a backbone at all. Modern leadership, it turns out, is less about choosing a direction and more about threading a path through overlapping loyalties, clashing incentives, and complex relationships. Pause fo
Ryan Gottfredson, Bret Crane
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It’s not what you know. It’s who you know.
Conventional wisdom says that high-status mentors—star connections—help you get ahead at work. From CEOs to sports coaches to (yes)...
How to Build an Authentic Coworking Community with Strong Sense of Community
Coworking spaces became popular with the modern workforce, who can work wherever they go with their laptops. The coworking movement was...
Is your well-being affected by your “social microclimate”?
To address the challenge of upending their lives and leaving behind familiar social worlds, many universities thoughtfully equip new...
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