If you compliment others, you can either motivate them to deliver more, or alternatively produce cynicism and distrust. Let me give you an example of how compliments can motivate people. Fortunately I’m mostly self-driven. I’d have to be …....
Over the years, I’ve seen many organizations struggle to get their cross-functional initiatives to run efficiently. In fact, this is often a reason why strategy execution is slower than we want. Why are cross-functional projects so tough? There are the usual...
Ever struggled to come up with new ideas? So did I. When I was younger, I admired others for their creativity, and was better at building on their thoughts and making things happen. I never saw myself as creative. These days others think of me as generating fresh,...
Will Bachman, one of our panelists shared the saying he printed on his T shirt recently: “Everything Important is Uncertain.” Besides being an unusual hobby to print epigrams on his T shirts, I thought, yes, that is just so true. As the Founder of Umbrex, a network...
A Merchandising Manager recently emailed me this strategy question: “I signed up for your newsletter as strategy is one of the areas I’m looking to grow. ……. I’m curious to hear what you would recommend to someone who wants to show up as...
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