Now, here’s today’s question. If you had to pick the most pivotal 10 days of your career, what would they be?  Ten days that, either looking back or in the moment, felt like everything had been leading you to this point. Perhaps it was the lead up to a landmark ...

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We are coming to the end of another eventful year, another 12 month bundle of opportunities, challenges, plenty of highlights and some definite unforeseen low lights. Hopefully you are about to embark on a well-deserved break. This is exactly what the inside influence team and myself will be doing. So ...

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Today’s question is a big one for many of us this year, as we emerge from let’s call it an ‘intense’ period of time – and into a new work and life landscape that’s being written as we live it. So here’s today’s question – how do you lead from ...

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What does it take to face your critics? I mean squarely, unflinchingly – with full self-responsibility. However, and this part is all important, still willing to defend yourself when it counts? Responsibility is an interesting word. I always understood it to mean ‘the ability to respond’. Taking full ownership of ...

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Have you ever felt invisible or inarticulate – especially when it comes to asking for what you want?  Given the sheer volume of books in bookstores right now on the subject of influence – how to get more, how to get people to do what you want, how to speak ...

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Hey everyone – the Inside Influence team and I are taking an eight week sabbatical this winter (or summer if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere) to generally reset, recalibrate and refill our creative tanks. For many of us, myself included, that means traveling across the world to see family members ...

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