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Best Practices

February 23, 2016

You Can’t Be Good at Everything (“Talk” #4)

Not words that many of us want to hear – but seriously, if you’ve had enough life experience, you know that it’s true. And the ground-breaking research done over the past 40 years by the folks at Gallup backs it up. As human beings (and managers) we each have talents, behaviors and thought processes that come to us easily, with little to no effort, what some would say are “second nature”. There are others, however, at which we will never excel, no matter how much we practice and work to improve.

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February 1, 2016

The Power of “Power Posing”

Amy Cuddy wasn’t supposed to become a successful scientist. In fact, she wasn’t even supposed to finish her undergraduate degree. Early in her college career, Cuddy suffered a severe head injury in a car accident, and doctors said she would struggle to fully regain her mental capacity and finish her undergraduate degree.

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October 20, 2015

How The Founder of BuildDirect (a $150 Million Company) Empowers His Employees

BuildDirect.com is a mid-market company that’s put together a great Growth Strategy over the past few years that’s taken them to over $150M in revenues. A student of “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits”, Jeff Booth, their CEO, has done an amazing job of developing and refining their Strategy using the tools from “Scaling Up” with his team, in particular the Seven Strata (Chapter 7 for those of you with the “Scaling Up” book) but has also created an empowered and engaged workforce in the process.

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July 13, 2015

5 Tips for Engaging and Retaining your Top Talent

You’ve just spent valuable time, energy and money over the last 90 days looking for the RIGHT Talent to fill a critical seat in your company – AND you’ve found an amazing A Player who fits the bill perfectly for what you need to grow the company. But now that you’ve made a great hire, how do you keep them?  (HINT: It’s not about the money.)

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July 6, 2015

Is the “War for Talent” constraining your growth?

What do you do when you’re fighting from the trenches every day to find and attract the right people to your team? How are you competing with the “big guys” when it comes to offering the right opportunities to A players who can help you grow? More importantly, how do you find the time to FIND the right players and not WASTE your time with the wrong ones?

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