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How to Assert Your Power in Difficult Situations

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They use Casciaro’s new book, Power For All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business (co-authored with Julie Battilana), to explain confusing yet common power struggles. Even when their ideas are good, they run into roadblocks in the form of other people—managers, executives and other leaders.

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Matt Richtel’s New Book Explores the Emotional Balance Between Creativity and Stability

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Most scholars would answer this question with an obvious ‘yes,’ asserting that creativity is the engine of scientific discovery and the fundamental driving force of positive change. In brief, the idea is that new forms of life and new ideas are almost always destined to fail. From Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The woman stepped back, said, “Well, I guess now we have a director,” meaning that Fanning had finally shown she had the assertiveness necessary for the job, and walked out. She had discovered the power of asserting herself and, in doing so, freed herself from being bullied, backstabbed or stepped on. It’s not an easy rut to escape.

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When Hybrid Work Just Becomes Work

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The implications of Bloom’s assertion are wide and profound. Telling Anxious Managers What They Want to Hear The WIC finds a willing audience in the form of traditional managers who continue to long for the before-times (i.e. From the Great Recession to AI Economic crises are almost always followed by myriad forms of innovation.

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24 Do’s and Don’ts to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

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How you handle high levels of stress can mean the difference between being assertive and poised or being negative and disgruntled. Emotionally intelligent people are unwilling to be bogged down unnecessarily by others’ mistakes, so they let them go quickly and are assertive in protecting themselves from future harm. This is lesson No.

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These Are the 45 Most Important Minutes of Your Day

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Think how much better it would be to read an inspirational autobiography or a self-improvement book instead. Show me where I could have been more assertive today. This creates a subconscious image that will help form the desired behavior the next time a similar situation occurs. Show me where I could have been more loving today.

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How to succeed as an assistant

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Tip 2: Personal Effectiveness and Assertiveness. Your personal effectiveness includes how you communicate, how you manage your time, how assertive and confident you are and your power to negotiate and persuade. This course also forms part of our highly flexible PA and Secretary Professional Development Programme.