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Integrating Your Feelings With Your Thoughts

Many women have some unique challenges when it comes to taking a stand and speaking up for themselves and others.

Some women struggle with assertiveness, but if they are prone to anxiety and avoidance, it is especially difficult.

"THE ASSERTIVENESS GUIDE FOR WOMEN: How to Communicate Your Needs, Set Healthy Boundaries, and Transform Your Relationships" by Julie de Azevedo Hanks will help women identify their thoughts and feelings, balance emotions, communicate needs, and set healthy boundaries to improve their life.

Emotions are simply information to help guide your interactions with others and inform you when your need to assert yourself.

Why are emotions so important?

There are two primary reasons:

First, they help you develop self awareness.  In short, you cannot assert your thoughts, feelings, and needs until you are aware of them!

The second reason emotions matter is because they allow you to connect with others.  They are key to developing empathy, which is the ability to feel with another person so he or she feels understood and valued.

Your emotions are powerful tools to first understand your own self and then to forge relationships with others through exercising empathy.

In The Assertiveness Guide for Women, readers will learn about the three communication stances, and practical examples that demonstrate how to apply the new communication and emotional awareness skills in their own lives.

The three communication stances are:

• The passive Doormat
• The aggressive (or passive-aggressive) Sword
• The assertive Lantern

Source:   Julie de Azevedo Hanks PhD LCSW: The Assertiveness Guide for Women: How to Communicate Your Needs, Set Healthy Boundaries, and Transform Your Relationships

Other Self-Coaching Guides for Career Women: 

 Women, Know Thyself: The most important knowledge is self-knowledge.  (ebook and paperback editions)   

 Women and Time (ebook and paperback editions) 

 When Doing It All Won't Do: A self-coaching guide for career women. (ebook and Workbook Edition in paperback at $14.99) 

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How to Make the Innovation Work

Innovation occurs when boundaries, roadblocks and Naysayers are pushed to the side.

A book, ORBIT-SHIFTING INNOVATION, explores both the creative process behind innovation, as well as the execution.  It offers cutting-edge insights into the scholarship of the business and management arena, brimming with case studies of orbit-shifting innovations from both the private and public sectors.

By bringing alive the human endeavor that is intrinsic to innovation, ORBIT-SHIFTING INNOVATION illustrates the excitement and the pains in making orbit-shifting innovation happen.  The authors define a framework for innovation, taking into account the fact that innovation is inherently a leap into the unknown, and as such cannot be managed.

"Converting the 'next possible' into an orbit-shifting challenge will require the organization leadership and the innovation team to overcome 'personal gravity.'  It will require them to remove escape buttons and take on personal risk," say authors Rajiv Narang and Devika Devaiah.

It is important to note that even when a big idea has successfully reached the stage of having become a working prototype, the greater part of the innovation journey still remains.  How to now make the big idea work in the market is the dominant question in their mind.  The first in-market experiments will throw up new blind spots and even open up new opportunities.

Leadership recognizes that the new idea will need to have space to play out and evolve in the market, and that will in turn impact how it should scale up and grow.  Therefore, they are prepared to iterate and grow the idea in market.  The approach is 'how to make it work.'

A testing mindset, 'see it works', often results in an orbit-shifting idea being abandoned too early.  Orbit-shifters recognize that the first time an idea is taken to the market, it is unlikely to work; they provide space for in-market evolution.  They design for multiple idea evolutions.  Their attitude is to find a way to make it work and they do it through versioning--a conscious process to nurture and evolve the idea into an in-market success model. 

Bottom Line: In-market versioning is a way to grow an extraordinary idea into an extraordinary reality.

Source:   Orbit-Shifting Innovation: The Dynamics of Ideas that Create History

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Reinvention

Technology, globalization, economic shifts and geopolitical shocks have set in motion a continuous onslaught of radical, discontinuous change in the global business environment.

In fact, worldwide economic turmoil will most likely only increase in the future. Is it possible for existing businesses to survive, let alone thrive, in this turbulence?

Authors Shane Cragun and Kate Sweetman say "yes" -- as a leader you are prepared to look more inquisitively at the global shock waves that might impact your organizations and the people in them?

In Cragun and Sweetman's book, "Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption," the authors propose a simple formula, common principles, and set of tools for individuals and organizations facing disruptive and radical change.

"The ability to pivot quickly, profoundly, and effectively might be the most important core competency for individuals and organizations to acquire with hope to prosper in the new economy," says Cragun.  "Leaders must change before they have to, and they must enable their organization to surf the incoming global shockwaves with intelligence, agility, strength, and command." 

Reinvention uses compelling and eclectic stories and cases from around the globe over the past 100 years to reinforce key learnings.  A reinvention evaluation can help you get a sense of your current need for substantial change in your organizational realm.

When talking about the organizational reinvention evaluation, this is a great opportunity to have your leadership team fill out a survey individually (in a leadership team meeting) and then see to what extent the team is unified in their responses.

Source:  Shane Cragun: Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption

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The Innovation Formula

How do I create a culture for innovation?

A new book, The Innovation Formula, is an guide where the latest scientific research tells us very clearly what works and what doesn't.  The right path is usually the exact opposite of the path most of those organizations are taking.

This book aims to remedy that--to give you a clear, practical understanding of what has been scientifically proven to create a culture of innovation.

Research into the field of innovation is flourishing and it's exciting.  

A set of 14 variables held up as having significant impact on innovation culture.  All of these variables are discussed in various ways in the chapters of The Innovation Formula.  The book draws on several other meta-analyses and individual studies that have revealed the most important drivers of innovation culture.

• Part I looks at what you, the individual, need to be doing.
• Part II delves into the team level.  There is a variety of innovation drivers that can be manipulated within teams.
• Part III examines creating a culture that supports innovation at the leadership level.
• Part IV focuses on variables that need to be present across the entire organization to affect innovation culture.  These are arguably the most challenging to influence, given the reach they need to have.

No matter how big or small those changes may be, you can be sure that they will have a significant effect on improving the innovation output of your organization.

Source: The Innovation Formula: The 14 Science-Based Keys for Creating a Culture Where Innovation Thrives

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85% OF COMPANY SHORTFALLS ARE CAUSED BY INTERNAL BREAKDOWNS

A new report from Bain & Company, Barriers and Pathways to Sustainable Growth: Harnessing the Power of the Founder’s Mentality, finds that 85 percent of the barriers to profitable growth for the average company are internal and manageable – not external and uncontrollable, such as unfairly advantaged competitors, government regulations, inaccessible technologies and market conditions that do not offer growth opportunities. 

For the largest companies, this number rises to 94 percent.  Inability to overcome these internal factors will cause two out of every three companies to stall out, be acquired or disappear within the next 15 years.

These are the results of a five-year study across 8,000 global companies and discussions with executives in 40 countries about the key barriers that companies face today in the pursuit of sustained and profitable growth. 

The research was led by Chris Zook and James Allen, who are the co-founders of Bain’s Strategy Practice and authors of several bestselling books, including their most recent, The Founder’s Mentality (Harvard Business Press, June 2016).

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Working on Your Terms

A typical work day historically involved eight consecutive hours of effort for full-time workers, but today, most don’t stop working when the clock hits 5 p.m.

According to a new survey from CareerBuilder, nearly 3 in 5 workers (59 percent) believe the traditional 9-to-5 work day is a thing of the past. Forty-five percent of workers say they complete work outside of office hours; and 49 percent say they check or answer emails when they leave work.

The national survey was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder between May 11 and June 7, 2016, and included a representative sample of 3,244 full-time workers in the private sector across industries and company sizes.

Chances are that your career stability is less solid than you'd like to believe.

For many is a "no brainer" that has been at play for several decades now with the migration of American jobs into the global job market.  First, with manufacturing jobs moving to Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, then with services like call centers in Canada and the Philippines, and now with positions like technology consulting in India.

Simply put, employers are able to minimize their hefty labor costs by shifting from full-time employees to a sizable mix of Independents (including contractors).  This allows employers to effectively pay as they go for expertise and manpower when they need it.  Throw in the growing acceptance of remote workers, and employers' expenses shrink even more by eliminating the need for actual office space.

If you don't get ahead of these trends, you'll easily become a victim of them.

An estimated 33% of the American workforce currently consider themselves freelancers, and that number is expected to grow to about 50% by 2020.

Today, consultants are becoming a mainstay of the modern workforce.  These independent consultants gain freedom through helping others navigate a sea of problems by turning this economic climate into a smooth and peaceful lifestyle.

You can be on a career path that is open to new opportunities for more income and creative satisfaction if you have specific enhanced skills and experience as a consultant.

Source: Aaron Zwas: Transition To Independence: Use The T2I Plan To Live And Work On Your Terms In The New Idea Economy 

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In order to be a thought or industry leader, you need to rise to such a level of expertise or excellence that people will seek you out as a recognized authority.

The big question is, how do you get there?

The answer is that you need to engage in a branding process to legitimately position yourself at that level.

Fully understanding this process, including where the greater pitfalls, challenges, and opportunities lie in each phase, is a critical first step in building a solid brand.

The path to thought and industry leadership must start with a solid platform.  Before you begin any PR, marketing, or buzz-building campaigns, three critical actions, taken in a specific order, are required:

1. First, clearly articulate the brand and messages.
2. Next, develop a modern, marketing-oriented, up-to-date website.
3. Finally, create brand consistency on social media.

 

Source:  Karen Leland: The Brand Mapping Strategy: Design, Build, and Accelerate Your Brand

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Why Stock Market Investors Should Expect the Unexpected

Read our forecast for a market rally in the wake of Brexit

By Elliott Wave International

[Editor's Note: The text version of the story is below.]

Investors who jump on "sure things" in the stock market usually lick their wounds with regret.

The decision of British voters to leave the European Union appeared to represent low-hanging fruit to short sellers.

After the June 23 vote, the Dow plummeted 610 points on June 24 and tumbled another 261 points the next trading session on June 27.

Even professional investors thought the stock market pain would persist. A June 27 Wall Street Journal article focused on Brexit:

"This is likely to be a fairly prolonged process that unfortunately is going to be a bit of a messy negotiation -- that's not great for asset prices alone," said [a] portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments.

But, contrary to popular belief, we've observed that events -- even historical ones like Britain's decision to leave the EU -- do not govern the market's trend. Instead, the market's price pattern unfolds according to the Wave Principle, which provides a detailed model for how investors behave.

Based on the Wave Principle, our June 29 Short Term Update said:

Monday's [June 27] low marks the end of the pullback from the April-June highs in the Dow and S&P 500. The next Minor-degree advance is starting ... .

The next day, June 30, the Dow ended the session up 235 points, which carried the index to its fifth straight higher monthly close.

Later that evening, a CNBC headline quoted one of its well-known hosts:

This rally wasn't supposed to happen

The article goes on to say:

Suddenly out of nowhere -- after a Brexit was supposed to create a disaster in the stock market -- acquirers came out of the woodwork to spend billions to buy other companies, which crushed the short-sellers.

Indeed, July 1 was another positive day for the Dow with the senior index closing up 19.

Elliott wave-minded investors have learned to expect what takes the majority of investors by surprise.

The July Elliott Wave Financial Forecast says:

The coming month could be a big one for the stock market.

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This article was syndicated by Elliott Wave International and was originally published under the headline Why Stock Market Investors Should Expect the Unexpected. EWI is the world's largest market forecasting firm. Its staff of full-time analysts led by Chartered Market Technician Robert Prechter provides 24-hour-a-day market analysis to institutional and private investors around the world.

 

Women Business Leaders

  Despite the inroads by women in the workplace, a double standard still exists, reinforced by gender stereotypes that view an assertive woman as “pushy,” while an assertive man is viewed as “bold” and “self-assured.” 

Without a strong role model, women are unsure how to respond when they encounter such attitudes, especially when they are trying to launch their careers.

Women who have overcome these obstacles can and should play a pivotal role in helping other women succeed by acting as coaches or mentors.  In “UPSETTING THE TABLE: Women Mentoring Women” author Robbie Hardy, a technology sector veteran, has devoted a large portion of her career to mentoring other women.

Through coaching and mentoring, women executives have the opportunity to pass on their experience to other women. 

 The more you open yourself up to new learning opportunities and new chances, the greater your capacity to shore up your foundation, gain introspection, and grow as a person, parent, professional, or partner.

This stretching also opens up your ability to listen and actually hear new ideas, new ways of thinking, and incorporate them into your life. 

Source:  Robbie Hardy: Upsetting the Table: Women Mentoring Women

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