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“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.”

I came across this proverb once again this week, while listening in to a webinar on Career Management. I find it very inspirational – both for […]

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Career Management

‘Managing up’: how to manage your relationship with your boss more intentionally and impactfully for your career progress

A look at my LinkedIn profile would tell you that my corporate career spanned 29 years, from 1987 to 2016. It doesn’t reveal that I worked […]

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Leadership & Management Skills

7 tips for enhancing your informal leadership & influence (updated Dec 2021)

In these days of matrixed structures, flat hierarchies and outsourcing, the ability to influence others over whom we do not have formal authority, is extremely important […]

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“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”

I have always believed in this philosophy espoused by JFK, rather than the slightly differing (not opposite) philosophy of ‘Why fix it if it ain’t broke?’. […]