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

Strategy Driven

That’s why I advise businesses, write books, speak at conferences and more. Mine was legendary humorist and media figure Cactus Pryor. His father, Skinny Pryor, owned a movie theatre and entertained audiences with comedy routines during intermissions. Music programming was important to Cactus Pryor and, thus, to me.

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Servant Leadership Observer – October 2011

Modern Servant Leader

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: Former Red Cross exec Vikki Pryor addresses Servant Leadership Conference. This piece recaps Pryor’s keynote at the Pastoral Institute’s annual Servant Leadership Conference. I had the good fortune to hear Pryor at the Greenleaf conference a couple years ago and highly recommend her.

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The Best Way to Network in a New Job

Harvard Business Review

Greg Pryor, head of talent at Workday, which partnered with us on this research, describes the difference as working to pull people into your network rather than pushing your way into theirs. “We teach our people how to draw people to their ideas and create energy in interactions from day one,” he explains. Networking.

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