Category: Leadership Skills
Three Essential Questions of Big Data: What? So What? Now What?
When you’re overwhelmed by an onslaught of big data stop and answer three essential questions: What? So what? Now what? This will help you get a handle on the data,…
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Work Less, Create More Value – The Art of Delegating
Scope is a function of resources and time. If the scope of what you’re trying to accomplish is too much to get done in a high quality way, you have…
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Where Should You Play: When Theory and Practice Diverge
Where to play is generally the first of the five core questions a BRAVE leader needs to answer. In theory, this is done by solving someone’s problem after choosing which…
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MOOC Provider edX Partners with Community Colleges to Improve Workforce Readiness
Just as business leaders should consider following the flipped classroom model for business presentations, think about deploying a blended learning approach for employees working outside your main office. They have the…
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The Goldilocks Middle Way Between DIY and Outsourcing
The essence of the Goldilocks approach is breaking apart outsourcing decisions into their components
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Beyond 10,000 Hours: The Constant Pursuit of Mastery
People will follow someone who takes them to a happy place in a happy way. But they will devote themselves to the cause of a BRAVE leader who helps them…
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Where Should You Play? The Secret to Investing Your Time and Talent for Maximum Impact and Reward
Where it matters is most likely going to be where there is an unmet need that has a meaningful impact on peoples’ lives. Where you can win is not just…
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Follow the “Flipped Classroom” Model in Business Presentations
It’s time to flip your business meeting model. The norms for teaching and presenting information in the classroom are making a 180-degree about face, and this change has tremendous implications…
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Three Keys to a Winning Attitude in a Service Business
If you create value for your customer primarily through service or support, you must be responsive and flexible. This is an attitude choice across strategy, posture and culture. This is…
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