How to Make Hard Decisions

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"There are no easy days and you need to see those tough decisions as interesting puzzles," she says. "I do think we're just living through this breathtaking moment of change for all the obvious reasons, but I do think managing people and leading people has gotten five to 10 times harder." A lot of fast rising executives say they didn't sign up for how hard this is, he adds.

Adam Bryant shares powerful insights on how to get promoted and be successful as a leader.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What every aspiring leader should know about themselves.

2) How to get promoted without asking for a promotion.

3) The key ratio that positions you for advancement.

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— ABOUT ADAM —

Adam Bryant is Senior Managing Director and Partner at the ExCo Group, where he works with hundreds of senior leaders and high-potential executives. As the creator and former author of the iconic “Corner Office” column in The New York Times, Bryant has mastered the art of distilling real-world lessons from his hundreds of interviews and turning them into practical tools, presentations, and exercises to help companies deepen their leadership benches and strengthen their teams. He also works with executive leadership teams to help drive their transformation strategies, based on a best-practices framework he developed for his widely praised book, THE CEO TEST: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders.

• Book: The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

• Book: The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed

• Website: AdamBryantBooks.com

• Company Website: ExCoLeadership.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

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• Book: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

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