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Kristi Hedges: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Kristi Hedges is a leadership coach, speaker and author. Her workshops and leadership coaching programs have been utilized by CEOs and teams of all [.].

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Next Level Tips for Women Leaders

Next Level Blog

Main | Leaders, Your Words Matter » January 07, 2011 Next Level Tips for Women Leaders Last month, I was interviewed by Kristi Hedges, executive coach and columnist for WomenEntrepeneur.com , on how women leading their own businesses can develop themselves for next level performance. 

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable. I have been directing high-performance team workshops for nearly 15 years and I am in complete agreement with you Mike.

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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

The workshops at the 25th conference on artificial intelligence can shed light on the future of natural language systems. It's natural for advisers to hedge rather than deliver bad news or make specific predictions that may not come to pass. What if the adviser is misguided or doesn't tell the whole truth?

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business Review

At the recent Brexit Workshop we held for clients — in this case, 19 UK heads of some of the world’s largest multinational firms — 10 of them had not started or had only just begun planning for Brexit. Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. How to Plan for Brexit.

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Great Companies Stay True to the Spirit of Their Founders

Harvard Business Review

As part of our research to understand these attributes, we interviewed scores of founders and ran dozens of workshops with leaders of the Founder’s Mentality 100 (a network of fast-growth, mostly founder-led companies). This “spikiness” is the key to staying competitive, but it isn’t easy.