Lydia Szymanski

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Making decisions is hard — especially when it comes to your career. This five-step framework can help. https://t.co/9TFC4lva2J

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Whether or not you work in sales, you’ll have to sell things to people at various points of your career. Here’s a beginner’s guide. https://t.co/xy8xUZwrAD

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

The essence of strategy is choosing a unique and valuable position rooted in activities that your competitors can't match. https://t.co/PyTGgEJbxI

[richard shotton @rshotton]

Lovely piece from @davetrott on the three principles of advertising and making sure you complete one before moving to the next…

https://t.co/sdwGmnhYvg

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

“We discovered that people who don’t give up have a habit of interpreting setbacks as temporary, local, and changeable.” https://t.co/Hm8LFdERGg

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

A core skill of emotional intelligence is observing feelings before internalizing them.

Emotions are messages from your past self to your present self. They're best interpreted by your future self.

Feelings don't define who you are. They reveal what you value right now.

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

When you become a leader, your job is to define the problem — not solve it. https://t.co/pnQmAiMNMa

[richard shotton @rshotton]

"We all know what we make- but are you as certain what your customers are buying?

You make multi-coloured chocolate buttons, but that's not what people are buying. What people are buying is a moments welcome peace from demanding children"

Jeremy Bullmore in Polishing the Apples

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Powerful, high-impact feedback conversations do three things:
1. Start with openness and humility.
2. Intend to help the employee grow, rather than to show them they were wrong.
3. Invite the employee into the problem-solving process. https://t.co/xgZG1BIzU4

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Even when women network as much as men, spend as much time with senior leadership as men, and score the same on performance reviews as men, they didn't advance as quickly. https://t.co/sDoITfkHtB

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Define leadership. https://t.co/ofJVE6CycS

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Our brains are programmed to expect the worst. But a few mind hacks can shift your thinking. https://t.co/5kkb3XmsX3

[richard shotton @rshotton]

Gilovich asked people to undertake slightly embarrassing actions & then estimate what proportion of people noticed

The guesses were x6 the real figure

Professionally & personally we think people notice us (& our brands) much more than they do
https://t.co/yEkf2wcaRb

[McKinsey & Company @McKinsey]

What sets the best communicators apart from the rest? It starts with focusing on the synthesis over summary. Join McKinsey Forward online learning program to improve your communication skills, develop new ways of thinking, and learn to lead with purpose➡️https://t.co/MnaABjzpNf

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Your innovation team needs both chaos pilots and troublemakers. https://t.co/n2FwHLzaRC

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

Many leaders get bad feedback, so they fail to ask for more of it. https://t.co/dMge8WRz38

[richard shotton @rshotton]

On the difference between claims and actual behaviour

The bars on left are the % who claim to exercise above a certain threshold (men = 39%)

The bar on the right is the % who actually hit that threshold as measured by accelerometer (men = 6%)

Via BIT's EAST framework

[richard shotton @rshotton]

The power of labelling

Simple study from Cialdini showing people’s tendency to want to behave consistently with the label they’ve been given

In High Performance

[Harvard Business Review @HarvardBiz]

The research is clear: People with mentors perform better, advance in their careers faster, and even experience more work-life satisfaction. But many people don't know how to find a mentor or establish a relationship. https://t.co/hmDPmtjKm4

[MIT Sloan Management Review @mitsmr]

We used a scholarship approach with over 2,000 executives that involved focus groups and quantitative analysis. This led to a definition of leader character based on ten dimensions that interact with an 11th, central quality of judgment.
Discover more ▶️ https://t.co/pZvC4GJkUk