Skip Prichard

JULY 31, 2023

Enhanced Decision Making A well-rested leader is a sharp-minded leader. “Sleep isn’t just a time of rest, it’s a cornerstone of leadership success. Successful negotiation requires sharp critical thinking, emotional control, and the ability to understand the other party’s perspective.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2019

Being a successful leader can be exhausting. Leadership requires a sharp focus and their careful attention, with no room for checking out. Successful leaders have plenty of stress. Fuel your body with fruits, vegetables, whole grains and protein, and drink lots of water to stay hydrated and sharp. Turn off your screens.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

As any restaurateur knows, the success of a dining establishment hinges not just on the quality of the food but equally on the performance of the staff. This article delves into the different aspects of staff training that can lead to a successful and profitable dining business. It starts by defining the roles within your business.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In the modern age of business, you need to be sharp to manage your business towards having a competitive edge. With so much chatter across the business world about digital technology and automation, it can be difficult to refocus back on staff – the people who get the job done for you and your company. Think Staff. Software Steals.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2015

Technical Barriers – No technology exists to help with this. At 113, she enthusiastically embraced technology. Her mind still sharp, she busied herself with a long to-do list, but rigidly insisted the list must be completed in a specific order. We need to do things in a certain sequence. This might hurt.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 4, 2016

By now, succession planning routinely takes generational demographics into close consideration. Generational mindsets and preferences about work and leadership are extremely unique to this era, especially given the technology advances of the last few decades. Then something curious happened. Everyone will be better for it.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

Our Leadership Experiences immerse leaders in powerful metaphors from professional sports, songwriting and human space travel to bringing leadership lessons into sharp focus. Technology: Executives need the curiosity to adapt and leverage technology.

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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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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. Like the generations preceding them, Millennials are products of the major events and technologies that became widespread during their formative years.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

Managing remote employees and building a successful remote team can be a daunting task for any organization. Image: Pexels Establish Clear Communication Guidelines The Backbone of Remote Success Effective communication is the backbone of successful remote employees and managing a remote team.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Rapidly advancing technology (sometimes helpful and sometimes not). If you engage in consistently correct behavior, you’ll be successful. The futile search for perfection will kill success, because it is never achieved. Today, turbulent times are the norm, so we might as well get used to them and get better at dealing with them.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” Based on this sharp change, he predicted all of China would improve in two weeks and stop in China by the end of March.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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CEO Blog

MAY 8, 2011

I have actually become quite a successful investor. Koppel starts the book by saying that successful investors have wins and they have losses. Early on, he quotes Baruch: " Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. I like reading about how we think and how the brain works.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Accelerated change driven by exponentially advancing technologies have made steep learning curves part of every day work. From managing people and processes to enabling success. The team doesn't work for you anymore, you work for the team—their success is your success. Fortunately, book authors Heather C.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. First, continuing to invest in technology and tech teams that can develop tools for our employees. First, continuing to invest in technology and tech teams that can develop tools for our employees.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

This easily leads to miscommunication, misunderstanding and misalignment (from the start) about what the problem is, what success looks like, why it matters, and what’s at stake. Good execution requires a “Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals.” ” The Power of Questions.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2019

Same goes for innovations and technology. Remember that there are millions of people who read the same books to become something, only those are truly successful who implement their knowledge in unique ways. This happens when your potential employee is sharp enough to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. Yet many other women have managed to build highly successful careers with degrees in STEM disciplines.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

And the advice they give often sounds reasonable: The World Economic Forum published a post , in cooperation with Business Insider, listing 14 things successful people do before breakfast. A list that Forbes published claims every successful person shares this quality: “They know when to stay and when to leave.”

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Neuroscientists have found that when it comes to creating memories around an event that sparks an emotional response, our brain experiences a form of tunnel vision where our focus becomes so sharp for certain details that we end up overlooking others which at that time might have seemed unimportant or unrelated.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are invariably successful. And success goes to those who play it best. It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” ” In my view, USA Today is assured great commercial success in journalism. Accountability.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Creator of The Situational Coaching Model, author of 5 books including Coaching for Breakthrough Success. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Divya Silbermann – Human resources leader at technology startups, including Facebook and Eventbrite.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many even believe in the myth that just good work creates success!) What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Being sharp means being succinct. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). 5% response is success! Rehearse your pitch.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. Enough examination of the outside of the package—time to figure out what it contained! I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology. ” The point of technology, she argues, is to boost productivity, not cut the workforce.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

They are invariably successful. And success goes to those who play it best. It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I've reached this conclusion after years working with clients — both on the business side and in technology — carefully observing the ways data help organizations create value, as well as in discussions with other experts (I've won at least a few over). Worse, only about one in six data groups (15%) were judged successful.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

This is a sharp contrast with the investment that senior leaders used to make in employees. What does success look like in your position? What are job goals and key success metrics? During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Neuroscientist Gary Marcus has a typically sharp post over at the New Yorker’s site explaining how dumb our most cutting edge artificial intelligence technologies still are. Ethics Technology' Who feared violence? They’re not thinking the way our brains do. Why would we want to add real thinking machines to that list?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Wield a sharp hatchet: Once you've gathered lots of material, start cutting mercilessly on your audience's behalf. At this stage, more is more, because you may work your way through five, ten, or even twenty ideas until you find ones that are distinctive and memorable.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation. Distribution strategies.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. Hess Growing an Entrepreneurial Business is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small to medium sized enterprises.

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