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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Or look at a shorter, more visual chart on doomsday forecasts predicting the end of the world (including revised dates — also wrong) published by The Economist in 2015. A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change. His finding: “the more famous the expert, the worse he did.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to a Great Mentor. Remembering Cactus Pryor.

Strategy Driven

Cactus began developing special characters, with unique personas. During that time, he developed a famous sign-off phrase. Through the remotes, I learned how to feed lines and develop the talent to speak in sound bites, as I do for business media interviews to this day. I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford.

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How to Regain the Lost Art of Reflection

Harvard Business Review

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, among others, share Warren Buffett’s discipline to read extensively, safeguard time for personal development projects, and constantly seek new stimulus and perspectives. To develop a routine, time for reflection should be a regularly scheduled and a protected event on the leader’s calendar.

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