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Ep 249: Izzy Gousby on Managing a Team of Assistants and Cultivating Confidence

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Izzy discusses the power of networking, what it means to own your work, managing a team of executive assistants, and cultivating confidence. Prior to Analysis Group, she worked as an executive assistant to the CEO, CFO, and CMO at a biotechnology firm in Boston.

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Ep 228: Monica Martin on Advocating for Yourself and Pivoting when Priorities Change

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

In this episode, Monica talks about being confident in advocating for yourself, pivoting when priorities change, and being honest with yourself if you find yourself in a role that’s not quite for you. Monica Martin is a longtime assistant in the aerospace engineering industry.

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A workplace for entrepreneurial mindsets to thrive should be your goal

Workplace Insight

Sales of physical CDs were slumping in favour of digital music downloads, and Jeff Bezos was concerned that books might be next. Conventions were broken and Amazon made what seemed impossible – a device customers could use to store and download countless books at the touch of a button – possible. The power of audacity.

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Nibbles and Yum-Yums: August 13, 2010

Eat Your Career

I’m definitely planning on watching it again, especially now that I’ve read this insightful analysis of how it relates to self-improvement. I’ll be honest here: The movie Inception lost me about halfway through when that one guy started floating around the hotel room. Dragos Roua is known for this.

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Stop Looking at Role Models to Do the Dirty Work for You

Brilliantly Better

I think too often, we gain confidence from people we will probably never meet in our lives called role models. I think in this article I give a very intuitive analysis of how role models can be an important tool for guiding changes in one’s personality. I wasn’t a star. I wasn’t a celebrity.

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How To Train Your Brain

Brilliantly Better

If you wonder how this BPI is calculated (I know I did), there’s an answer for that too: “ The BPI scales are based on an analysis and ranking of over 13,000,000 real game results. I also indulge in brain games occasionally and have noticed improvement in my confidence and competence. As well I enjoyed your take on your iPhone app.

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The 6 Stages Of A Failure

Brilliantly Better

Or is the analysis throughout all the stages, just in differing degrees? As simple or as complicated as you see fit. { Now, I can look at my score and think I suck, or I can look at all the laughs I gave people and think I cheered up a lot of people that day. Perspective can be a powerful thing.

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