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

Strategy Driven

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. Today, when I use nouns as verbs and place business terms out of context to make people think creatively, I’m thinking back to Cactus Pryor.

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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. Crucially, effective networkers also shift their strategy as they approach the two- to four-year timeframe. Kathryn Heath. Derek Coburn.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. My entertainment mentors were Cactus Pryor and Bob Gooding. I was retained to come in and analyze the strategy and structure of the KFC corporation, asked to recommend changes and improvements. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.