Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

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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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

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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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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The Recovering Engineer

JUNE 12, 2010

Fred Pryor Seminars Dealing with Difficult Customers-set of 3 says: July 6, 2010 at 6:10 pm [.] It only got worse from there, and it all began with John’s assumption about Joe’s intention. He now enjoys speaking, writing, and teaching these relationship principles to others. Reply What Do You Think?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

Successful newcomers were instead more selective and less superficial in their outreach. 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.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

My entertainment mentors were Cactus Pryor and Bob Gooding. Its recognition and success evolved into the national ad campaign: “We Do Chicken Right.” An empowered workforce must support the corporate objective, and the art with which it does spells success.). I wrote editions of the Kalendar for radio and newspapers.

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