Category: Leadership Skills & Strategy
How To Play The Best Supporting Role In Meetings
the one thing you must do to keep your organization from becoming a soap opera is to keep your focus on your most important external mission – the problem you…
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How To Keep Your Organization From Becoming A Soap Opera
the one thing you must do to keep your organization from becoming a soap opera is to keep your focus on your most important external mission – the problem you…
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How To Ratchet Up The ‘Current Best You’ In Pursuit Of Mastery
It is not about achieving mastery because if you think you’ve reached the peak, the only way to go is down. It is about being content with the healthy discontentment…
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Why You Should Take A Differentially Good Approach To Business Development
Invest more in prospects and customers that do good for others, help you get stronger at what you’re good at, or are good for you. Invest less in those that…
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Want To Change Someone’s Mind? Change Their Personal Balance Of Consequences
COPE works as a simplifying framework to add discipline at different levels and time-spans by working through context, objectives, priorities, and enablers.
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Simplify Planning So All Can COPE: Context, Objectives, Priorities, Enablers
COPE works as a simplifying framework to add discipline at different levels and time-spans by working through context, objectives, priorities, and enablers.
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Relooking At Why You Should Never Make Or Take Job Counter Offers
In my earlier article on this subject, I argued that job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions and are almost never successful. Either people don’t take them…
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What To Do With People In The Wrong Roles
What you should do with people in the wrong roles depends. If they don’t have the motivation, fit or strengths required for your organization, move them out. If they do,…
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Relooking At Three Priorities In Ensuring A Smooth Merger Or Acquisition
One of my early articles for this publication was about AMN’s CEO Susan Salka and Three Priorities in Ensuring a Smooth Merger or Acquisition. Those priorities were 1) early conversations with…
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