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The Power Of Indirect Influence, Criteria, Frameworks, and Agendas

The Power Of Indirect Influence, Criteria, Frameworks, and Agendas

One of the most important parts of any trial is the judge’s instructions to the jury. Through those, a judge will explain the relevant legal principles and definitions, clarify the jury’s role and responsibilities, and provide a framework for evaluating the evidence,…

Everything Communicates

Everything Communicates

we will have seen editors and publishers (communication professionals) destroy their careers with personal communication missteps.

Building Differential Strengths As Investor, Operator Or Advisor

Building Differential Strengths As Investor, Operator Or Advisor

Strengths are made up of a combination of innate talent, learned knowledge, practiced skills, hard-won experience tying it all together, and, at the highest, best level, craft-level caring and sensibilities absorbed from apprenticeships with masters over time.

How To Manage The New Hierarchy Of Meeting Engagement

How To Manage The New Hierarchy Of Meeting Engagement

Meeting engagement getty There’s a whole new hierarchy of meeting engagement. Be aware of the different levels and your options for managing them. Those engaged and in-person at meetings are better able to learn, contribute and decide than those either just paying…

How To Help Those Lacking The Confidence To Be Open To Help

How To Help Those Lacking The Confidence To Be Open To Help

Don’t. You cannot help those lacking the confidence to be open to help. Instead, find another person or another way to help them or walk away. Earlier, I wrote about why you should hire people with enough confidence to be open to input. It built on ex-Stanford…

Relooking At Flipping The Classroom For Business Meetings

Relooking At Flipping The Classroom For Business Meetings

One of my early articles was Follow the ‘Flipped Classroom’ Model in Business Presentations. The main point was that it was time to flip your business meeting model. I noted that the norms for teaching and presenting information in the classroom were making a…

How To Ask Struggling Colleagues If They Want Help

How To Ask Struggling Colleagues If They Want Help

In a lovely NY Times article, Jancee Dunn described a conversation with her sister, a teacher, ‘“What do you do when a kid is emotionally overwhelmed?’ I asked. Many teachers at her school, she told me, ask students a simple question: Do you want to be helped, heard…

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The Stakeholders You’re Not Thinking About – And Why They Can Derail Your First 100 Days

Cracker Barrel made headlines when its relatively new CEO departed after less than two years in the role they were hired to transform. The reasons were complex, but one thread…

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Outcome-Based Governance: Aligning Policies, Guidelines, and Principles

Policies channel compliance. Guidelines invite contribution. Principles earn commitment. Start with how you want people to behave at work and then design your governance stack to reinforce, not inhibit that.  Three…

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The Neuroscience of Leadership: Accelerating Growth Mindset and Enterprise Performance

Organizations’ futures depend less on what their people know today than on how fast they can learn, adapt, and execute tomorrow. Building on Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset – the idea that abilities can be…

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Everything Communicates: Especially As and To an Executive Onboarding into a New Role

Everything communicates. Everything you say and don’t say, do and don’t do, and the order in which you say and do it sends a message. The same is true for everyone around you. As an executive onboarding into a…

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Designing The Right Offsites for Different Leadership Levels

Offsites can be rocket fuel or expensive theater. One difference is whether you design each for the kind of leadership each level needs to provide: cultural, strategic, operational, or tactical. When you nest your offsites to fit those roles, you…

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Strategic Adaptation in Leadership: Lessons from the Argentina–England World Cup Semi-Final

The Argentina–England World Cup semi-final was not just a game; it was a live case study in how leaders deploy strategy and tactics—and what happens when they fail to adjust…

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