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Listen up – The Sunday Snippet – [6.29.14]

Listening well builds your credibility, your career and your business. More than anything else, we all want to be heard and understood. It’s human nature, but our own personal needs in this area often overpower our capacity to listen effectively to others. Respect and admiration are two glowing benefits that come from good listening. We’ve …

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Room for doubt – The Sunday Snippet – [5.18.14]

The best leaders are humble leaders. When it comes to successful leadership traits you naturally think of confidence, decisiveness and forcefulness – someone who tells people what to do and how to do it. That style can be useful, especially in time-sensitive, life-or-death situations like medical emergencies or combat. Sports competitions are another area for …

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Your Big Opportunity – The Sunday Snippet – [4.28.14]

Forget the giant strategy deck. There’s a shorter (and better) way. Business strategy is notoriously difficult to articulate, absorb and execute. Strategy sessions often begin with 2-inch thick PowerPoint presentations and then devolve into foggy, multi-tangent discussions with a barely perceptible plan of action. Harvard Business School professor John Kotter and his colleagues at Kotter …

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