Advancement on Shine

RESISTANCE TO CHANGE (PERCEIVE & THREAT)

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Resistance to change is the action taken by individuals and groups when they perceive that a change that is occurring as a threat to them.

Key words here are 'perceive' and 'threat'. The threat need not be…

AVOIDING DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN THE WORKPLACE

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This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor in which this…

When It Comes to Career Success There Is No Substitute for Action

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Lee E. Miller, author of UP: Influence Power and The U Perspective- The Art of Getting What You Want (YCD Press), Get More Money on Your Next Job (McGraw Hill) and with my daughter A Woman’s Guide to Successful Negotiating (McGraw Hill ), writes about our tendency toward...

When moving up in your career doesn't get you ahead

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Moving ahead in one’s career is a good thing, right? Not necessarily so. Personally, I don’t want a promotion. I’ve moved up the ladder before only to intentionally bring myself back down.

As an advertising copywriter, the next rung on the advancement ladder is usually to become an associate creative director. When clients offered those positions, I used to laugh – just because I can write, doesn’t mean I know how to direct creative work, which involves art oversight as well as copy direction. Being good with words doesn’t translate into being able to manage people, impose deadlines, and mediate squabbles between writers and designers. When the offers arose, I always declined.

So when a reputable advertising professional approached me to start a new agency, I should have known better.