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Think Strategy… Think Risky Assumptions
Do you remember the negative definition of assumption? You know the definition invoked, usually after some sort of disaster, in which if you are holding the bag your superior says, “How could this have happened?” and you say something like you assumed. and then they say, “Assume stands for making an ass out of you [...]
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Quiet… it’s 2012
Hey, if your week has been anything like mine, it’s been jammed packed with stuff. Lots of final prep for efforts to get launched this year that weren’t quite ready for show time on Jan. 3rd. But I bet it didn’t contain one commodity which you and I need, probably more than ever this year - [...]
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The Secret to Raising Your Game
A recent article with legendary runner, Utta Pippin, revealed her take on what it takes to perform at an extremely high level. Note she’s the first woman to win the Boston Marathon three times in a row. She adds an interesting spin at the end that the interviewer doesn’t catch. It’s huge. For those of you [...]
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Getting Work Done Through People
We completed a survey this week on what are the biggest “pain points” incurred in a position where you have to get work done through others, e.g. you manage people (in addition to whatever else) for a living. Guess what was number 1? Well first let me tell you what was the 3rd most frequently cited [...]
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Progress, ManagePro & Sins of Omission
Yesterday was one of those days, not a bad day at all. Just one of those days when several points of reality line up and “bonk” you over the head, saying “So… What About This?” So a quick blog about best intentions, confronting reality and our aversions. Well, actually here’s the 15 second sound byte first. On [...]
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How to Reduce the Time a Meeting Requires – tip 13b
OK, imagine you’re leading the meeting at 4pm today and you’d like to get it to finish in 30 minutes instead of an hour, while still covering everything that needs to be addressed. What do you do in the meeting? I’m guessing what you are thinking, and actually you just missed it. What? Go back, [...]
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Leading Effective Meetings, Outcomes vs Agenda
Quick, what’s the first thing you expect to see if you receive a handout for a meeting? I bet you said “Agenda”. Would you be surprised if there was no written Outcome on the same handout? Probably not. On both counts you would probably fit with 90+% of the rest of the world. And that’s a [...]
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Focus, Effectiveness & Guarding What’s First in Your Brain
Last week’s blog suggesting you actively take charge of managing the internal conversation and focusing process in your head, got me thinking about the role of what is first or top of mind. That led to marketing, the advertised perils of “multi-tasking” and how it all works like a manual transmission and a card deck in our brain. Ready for [...]
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Structuring the Process in Your Head and In Meetings
Someone said to me the other day. “You are a structured thinker.” Let me ask you something. “What would people say about your thought process if they crawled inside your head?” Would they say “this is incredible!” or “Wow, you apply learning really quickly” or “yikes, your thought process looks like my teenage daughter’s room, [...]
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Reviving Your Strategic Plan
I was talking with a board member last week and they said the strategic plan came back from the offsite and the consultant, but it wasn’t that helpful, and the Chairman didn’t know what to do with it. Sound familiar? From my perspective, it was dead on arrival, and in fact your strategic plan for [...]
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