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It’s in the data

When the aggregate looks okay, but your spidey senses are tingling, the answer may be in the data that rises or falls first. It used to be that economists looked...

Begin with no

Have you noticed that you end your week wondering where the time went? You completed less than half the items on your check-list and are exhausted before your very busy...

The old guard

The old guard of shaggy untrimmed palms stand in the dry creek bed in the middle of the oak trees, the poison oak and various native scrub of Griffith Park....

From strengths to superpowers

It takes some serious self-awareness for a leader to turn your strengths into superpowers.Let’s review a step-by-step process. First: Identify your strengths. If you have taken a self assessment like...

Empathy is in short supply

Empathy is defined as “recognizing, understanding, and appreciating how other people feel. Empathy involves being able to articulate your understanding of another’s perspective, and behaving in a way that respects...

What draws customers to you?

If you don’t want to be in the race to the bottom as the lowest priced vendor, what are you doing to distinguish yourself from the competition? Even if your...

Balancing on a beach ball

Many in the Vistage community are familiar with the story told in Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott, a former Vistage Chair, about 2 people describing a beach ball from opposite...

Deeper fakes

Ah, silly me! I saw a lovely dress on Instagram and ordered it before I went to Google and Reddit to verify the seller. I haven’t received it 23 days...

When the weather changes

We notice when the weather changes quickly that we may need to change our actions. When something changes internally, we often brush it off or ignore it and just work...

The EQ triangle

We had the pleasure last week of Vistage Speaker Heather Anderson’s Master Class on Emotional Intelligence. If you have not done a deep dive into Emotional Intelligence, it is highly...

Cultivate hope in your team

“Let’s talk about what truly separates effective leaders from the rest. It’s not only charisma or technical skills—it’s their ability to cultivate Hope in their teams.” – Yira Muse, Ph.D....

Stay balanced on the high wire

Tariffs are on, tariffs are off. Now they are back on. Before January and for a long time, the average tariff was about 2%. Trump raised them to 10% and...

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