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Find your red threads
- Category: Leadership, Living Well, Uncategorized
When Marcus Buckingham spoke to the Vistage community about his book Love+ Work, he was particularly captivating about finding your red threads. What does that mean? Why red? His red...
Execute like a project management pro
- Category: Innovation, Making better decisions, Teams
Let’s be honest, a great strategy poorly executed doesn’t make it versus your competitors. A pretty good strategy well executed will beat you every time. So, shouldn’t you be focused...
Endings – elegant or otherwise
- Category: Company Culture, Leadership, Making better decisions, Uncategorized
How damaging is it when a team member leaves the company for a competitor and trashes everything about your organization on the way out? Have you had this happen to...
To hope is an act of will
- Category: Living Well, Uncategorized
The rain had stopped and the birds were tweeting as the sun crept through the window. I took a deep breathe pushing my belly out and slowly exhaled all the...
15 minute check-in
- Category: High Performance Teams, Leadership, Uncategorized
Marcus Buckingham, author of First, Break All The Rules and 9 other books spoke to the Vistage Community about Love + Work his latest work. He described how in...
The wearing of the green
- Category: Living Well
There are some holidays that are sober reminders of sacrifice like Memorial Day. There are religious holidays that matter depending on your own traditions or how they have been popularized....
Consequence of error
- Category: Making better decisions, Uncategorized
Have you ever noodled on an issue for way too long because you just couldn’t decide between two options? One way to think about your thinking (or your speed to...
Beginner’s mind
- Category: Company Culture, Innovation, Uncategorized
How fun is it to learn something new? Whether it is how to use AI to craft a better story, or a new video game or, for my husband Paul,...
Got patience?
Not patience? Let’s line up at the starting line and let’s go! We don’t have time to wait for stragglers. Last one in is a rotten egg.
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More planning, fewer mistakes
- Category: Strategic Planning, Uncategorized
This week my Vistage groups were delighted to learn from Marc Emmer about the Secret Sauce. In the intersecting circles of short term vs long term thinking there is a...
The green flash
- Category: Living Well, Mindset, Uncategorized
“Two minutes to sunset!” our friend announced, and we all marched out to his deck to watch the sun go down over the Pacific. Seeing the green flash when the...
Let’s look at the economy….
- Category: The Economy, Uncategorized
I’ve seen a lot of quality economic data this week that I would like to pass along. Like many folks who have some investments in the stock market, I love...
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