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Author: Kris Safarova

  • When Everything Goes Wrong with Your Career Plans

    When Everything Goes Wrong with Your Career Plans

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    There are times when everything goes wrong with your career plans. This happens often in life. It happened to me multiple times … We work with many partners and executives and they sometimes break contact for a few months. When they resurface the most common reason provided is that things went chaotically off track and…

  • The Dark Side of Being a Leader

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      We’ve almost rounded the sun once more. Less than 2 weeks left in 2021! And I turned 40 on top of it. Feels like an end of a chapter and the beginning of the next. This year was hard. If you weren’t hard enough on yourself, I’m sure you felt judged by many people…

  • Consulting Sales Rainmaker Coaching Program

    Consulting Sales Rainmaker Coaching Program

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    “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest…

  • The Published Author Program

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    How can you start using the title published author in the next few months, even if you don’t want to write an entire book You probably already know the benefits of getting a book published: Build a stronger personal brand immediately. Open the door to new opportunities. Add to your signature, your bio, your articles…

  • A strategy expert vs. a CEO

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    A strategy expert vs. a CEO I’m going to end today’s Strategy Insights by talking about a client and some of the challenges, successes and particularly one of the deep insights we developed for this client. This client is named Raka, and she’s of Indian origin. She has worked at a very big, elite consulting…

  • Sanctions Are Like Punishing Your Spouse by Letting Them Date Other People

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    Sanctions Are Like Punishing Your Spouse by Letting Them Date Other People The next big theme is called, “Sanctions Are Like Punishing Your Spouse by Letting Them Date Other People.” That’s a funny sounding headline. What am I talking about? Imagine you had a spouse, and you don’t think they appreciate you for some reason,…

  • Three people that influence you the most

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    Three people that influence you the most The first big theme is titled, “The Three Most Influential People in the World: Roula Khalaf, Gwen Robinson, and Matt Murray.” This is a very deep insight. We have a lot of coaching clients, including very senior coaching clients. I’ve asked our coaching clients, “Who is influential to you?…

  • Coal, Oil and Gas Need the Best Minds

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    Coal, Oil and Gas Need the Best Minds This week’s theme is called, “Coal, Oil and Gas Need the Best Minds.” If you read any major news publication, you’re going to see two big trends. One is due to activist pressure, major banks like the Japanese company Mitsui—which is a trading house that owns banks—are…

  • Career Stagnation. When Promotions End and the Runway Ends

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    In the final piece for Strategy Insights, called “When Promotions End and the Runway Ends,” I’m going to talk through an interesting client situation. We have an Insider, who later also became a coaching client, named Addie. He works for a large multinational company. There’s nothing unusual about his career. He worked in industry for a…