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How to Be Awesome at Your Job · 2025-10-13 · 39 min · 7,687 words

1101: Navigating the Four Seasons of Leadership with Carolyn Dewar

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Go into those moments, being really conscious of what's the tone you want to set, how do you want to show up as a leader? What signals do you want to set? Because whatever you do in those moments will have a ripple effect down through the organization, whether you were intentional about it or not. So you want to set the right tone. Their biggest risk is your

own success makes you complacent. Things have been going well and so you hope you can just keep running that play and it's going to continue to go great. That's when leaders feel caught out. That's Carolyn Dewar. She's a senior

Partner at McKinsey <unk> Company's San Francisco office and co-leads the McKinsey CEO Excellence service line, advising many Fortune 100 CEOs how to maximize their effectiveness and lead their organizations through pivotal moments. Her new book, A CEO for all seasons, Mastering the Cycles of Leadership, talks about navigating the distinct phases of leadership that every leader must pass through. on their way to mastery. So you'll learn one, how to avoid the nearly universal blind spot of leaders, two, how to thrive in any leadership role. And three, how to nail your first impressions and set the right tone.

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