Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

One never forgets their first mentor. That first great mentor sticks with you always. Mine was legendary humorist and media figure Cactus Pryor. Cactus was 34 at the time that he began mentoring me. His father, Skinny Pryor, owned a movie theatre and entertained audiences with comedy routines during intermissions.

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Jason Womack

MARCH 7, 2011

It started when I asked a mentor of mine what I could do to maintain more control over the classroom and encourage my students to engage in the information. Luckily, my mentor was able to "talk me down." One book I read, "Don't Shoot the Dog," by Karen Pryor, taught me about the power of reinforcement.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

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. ”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Business Know-How Comes From Experience – The Value of Life-Long Mentoring. The value of acquiring and benefiting from mentors. I was being groomed by my mentors to be a White House advisor, which I later became. My entertainment mentors were Cactus Pryor and Bob Gooding. by Hank Moore. The year was 1959.

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