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Is Taking Work Personally Sabotaging Your Success? Find Out Now

Lolly Daskal

When you tie your self-worth to your professional performance, the fear of falling short can become paralyzing and prevent you from taking necessary risks. The Role of Self-Care: Balancing personal investment in work with self-care is crucial. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lessons in Organizational Savvy: Handling Sabotage

Optimum Associates

Soon after that we developed a self-assessment based on the 13 competencies associated with being organizationally savvy. After hundreds of seminars, tens of thousands of participants, clearly the lowest scores are for the competency “Handling Sabotage.” First I want to emphasize that I see this as an extremely serious issue.

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What is Organizational Savvy? Why is it an Essential Leadership and Life Skill?

Optimum Associates

Astute – To become savvy you don’t have to become political but you do have to develop awareness and knowledge about power, perception, deception, self-interest, sabotage, and more. So we should expect reasonable displays of self-interest and “biased social accounting” from our colleagues. They are defined by 2 characteristics.

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What is Your Level of Organizational Savvy?

Optimum Associates

Healthy Selfishness, #2 Use Your Power Of course, once it’s clear that Stuart is an overly political leader who will marginalize and sabotage you if he can, the smart thing to do is to get him out of your organization. Being savvy means understanding human nature, self-interest, and ambition. What Happened to Anne and Stuart?

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Healthy Selfishness

Optimum Associates

While you may have heard more references to “healthy selfishness” lately, we can trace its origins to Erich Fromm’s 1939 essay, “Selfishness and Self Love.” More recently, Scott Barry Kaufman constructed a Healthy Selfishness Scale and self-assessment. was raised in the US Midwest, the youngest of 4 siblings (3 older brothers).

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Powerful Affirmations For Success At Work

Vantage Circle

If you’ve noticed, it is mostly the negative thoughts and self-doubt that cloud our minds. Affirmations are positive statements that can encourage you to conquer self-sabotaging and negative thought processes. They are a sort of positive self-talk that can help you change your subconscious mind’s beliefs.

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Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #52: How to Change a Losing Culture, Novices vs. Experts, and more.

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