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Five Ways to Build Your Strategic Muscles

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One of the constants in my more than two decades of executive coaching is the desire and need to build the muscles required to develop and execute competitive and innovative strategies. What are their goals, concerns, opportunities, and threats? It came up with a client again as recently as this month.

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Don’t Let Your Deficiency Overwhelm Your Proficiency

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At the same time, even though she’s only been there a few months, she’s already making a major impact in raising the bar for her team, prompting them to think and act in new ways and bringing a fresh energy to an organization that has been set in its ways and needs to innovate. You’ve proven it out over time.

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How to Reclaim the Best Part of Your Commute

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packed subway rides or highway traffic jams in virtual reality, users will be prompted by the platform to set goals in the morning and reflect on the day in the evening.”. You might think the goal of meditation is to not think, but most of the experts I’ve read and talked to say the goal is really to notice when you’re thinking.

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How to Lead with Influence Instead of Authority

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or “What’s supporting and what’s getting in the way of your goals?” Listen : One of the best ways to learn what others care most about is to ask them open ended questions like “What would make this year a huge success for you?” Yet another is “What could we do together that would make a difference?”

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When Leadership, Ingenuity and Humanity Won the Day

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That feels like a good goal for all of us in leadership roles in the months and years to come. Perhaps that’s one more leadership lesson we can all draw from their story. The greatest leaders are in it for the long haul and keep up the work even when no one is watching.