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‘I Allow Myself a Mini-Wallow’: How to Handle Rejection in the Arts

By Abby Young-Powell — 2018

No matter how talented you are, if you work in the creative arts, you’ll likely experience rejection—whether it’s losing a job, or getting your ideas, art, funding applications, or pitches turned down.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Emotional Equations: Simple Steps for Creating Happiness + Success in Business + Life

When Chip Conley, dynamic author of the bestselling Peak, suffered a series of devastating personal and professional setbacks, he began using what he came to call “Emotional Equations” (such as Joy = Love – Fear) to help him focus on the variables in life that he could handle, rather than...

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Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking

Create the Future is an exciting, highly-visual guidebook for disruptive thinking, innovation, and change, paired with The Innovation Handbook, an updated version of the award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos.

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What Fuels Creativity?

We are all born creative but what we often lose sight of is the spark that ignites creativity, the inspiration that drives us back to the childhood enthusiasm to learn, explore, fail and discover.

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Passive-Aggressive Behavior & Conflict

Passive-aggressive people: Could you be one of them? Passive-aggressive people don't get mad, they get even. When conflict triggers an emotional response, the passive-aggressive pattern is for revenge, by some form of sabotage.

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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers.

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Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past fifteen years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and what gets in our way.

Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

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Tara Mohr: “Playing Big” Keynote—The 2014 3% Conference

In this keynote, Tara Mohr, author of Playing Big, talks about how about women can unhook from praise and criticism and play big on their own terms.

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Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead

A groundbreaking women’s leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see—in themselves and in the world In her coaching and programs for women, Tara Mohr saw how women were “playing small” in their lives...

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Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness

Leaders cannot predict the complex challenges they are called on to face. Veteran consultants Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell show that Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an invaluable tool to build resilience, solve problems, create hope and lead with confidence.

Joan Mcarthur-Blair, Jeanie Cockell

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The Character Edge: Leading and Winning with Integrity

Character―the moral values and habits of an individual―is in the spotlight now more than perhaps at any other point in modern history. Politicians distort facts. Corporations cheat customers and investors. Athletes are caught using illegal supplements.

Robert L. Caslen Jr., Michael D. Matthews, Martin Seligman (foreword)

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