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Focus on People to Drive Your Success
Keep it simple and do just one thing every day. Watch for more tried and true methods to persevere and thrive; Gentry shares some gems on ..
A Better Way to Set Strategic Priorities
Smart leaders understand that their job requires them to identify trade-offs, choosing what not to do as much as what to do. Grading the i..
What’s Your Preferred Decision-Making Style?
Every day, leaders make major decisions that have significant influence on the direction of a department or the company’s bottom line. Eve..
A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning
You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. So you look at past projects, gather and analyze r..
Building Trust: The Five Building Blocks
So how do you build trust? Well, that’s the subject of this entire book. 1) At the most basic level, trust is about reciprocity.
Two Questions that Crackdown on Excuse Making
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” Benjamin Franklin An excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a ..
The Four Pillars Of Performance That Turn Diversity Into A Competitive Advantage
We outline a framework that helps leaders turn diversity into a competitive advantage by considering how diversity impacts four pillars of..
Where Do Communication Styles Come From?
Our research has shown that there are four basic styles of communicating. These styles affect all of our communications with other people.
The Eight Habits Of Remarkably Coachable Leaders
Want to have greater career success? Become more coachable. Here are eight practices of highly coachable leaders.
Avoid Asking Why, And What Good Leaders Say Instead
Leaders avoid asking “why?” as it puts people on the defensive and often comes from a place of judging, not from a place of curiosity. Ins..