Assess Your Path Canvas

This one-page tool is designed to help you to assess where you are, where you want to be, and whether or not you are on the right path. Print out the tool, watch the video, and put it to work for you. Watch the Video Download the Tool [restrict] [/restrict]

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5 Things to Look for in a Job Candidate

Imagine that you are interviewing for a leadership role. You’ve studied the position, looked into organizational challenges and opportunities, and conducted a couple of mock interviews. You settle into the chair and I enter the room and introduce myself. During the interview, I’m looking for several things to suggest that you are a good fit…

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Find Your Path

The vast majority of my career has been spent being developed to lead others, leading others, or developing others to lead. Throughout much of that time, we would be led down a fairly prescriptive path. To be a leader, you’d have to have this experience, go to this course, take this job, etc. There was…

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Episode 050. Hang with Smart People featuring Chris Stemp

Host of the wildly popular Smart People podcast, Chris Stemp, joins Patrick in the lab to discuss having a panic attack at work, taking his career in a completely different direction, and the importance of understanding what motivates you. Patrick’s discussion with Chris reveals that Chris not only talks to to smart people on his…

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047. Learn to be an entrepreneurial leader with business thinker, practioner, and professor Joel Peterson

Joel Peterson has a long history of successful growth capital investments in a variety of industries. He currently teaches at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and is the Chairman of the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, as well as the Chairman of the Board at JetBlue Airways. He served formerly as Managing…

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