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  • Volatility and Leadership

    Volatility and Leadership

    The business landscape has changed; how do you navigate it, and more importantly, how do you find success?

  • Self Perception

    Self Perception

    Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is essential to gaining confidence in the workplace; here's how I break it down.

  • Minimum Viable Audience

    Minimum Viable Audience

    What is a minimum viable audience, and how can you utilize it for your business? I'll explain how.

  • Preventing Distraction

    Preventing Distraction

    Looking for ways to prevent distraction? Here’s how, in this week’s OMWM.

  • 3 Reasons Consultants Stay Engaged

    3 Reasons Consultants Stay Engaged

    Here are 3 reasons why, despite all of the pressures of consulting, why consultants stay engaged.

  • 3 Motives for Mentors

    3 Motives for Mentors

    The success of a mentor relationship depends upon what you expect to receive from this connection, and I've noticed there are 3 possible outcomes, in this One Minute With Me.

  • 10 Key Management Topics

    10 Key Management Topics

    These are the 10 Key Management Topics every upcoming leader should have knowledge on.

  • Team Emotional Intelligence Questions

    Team Emotional Intelligence Questions

    Industry intelligence needs to be complimented by strong emotional intelligence. Learn more on how to ask the important emotional intelligence questions for your team.

  • The 3 C's

    The 3 C's

    Transition in any facet of life is challenging – moving to a different city, phasing into retirement or beginning a new job. Sociologists have a recommended path you should follow to make these transitions more successful. And I think its application to a new job, or a new business executive roles (particularly for a CFO) is relevant.

    Sociologists urge you to focus on the three C’s.

    Creativity. Connection. And Contribution.

  • Social Proof and Scarcity

    Social Proof and Scarcity

    Decision makers – in my case that’s hospital CFOs – are now overrun with distraction. They have more responsibility. More vendors in their ear. More complexity to their operation. But less time.

    Consequently, the decision maker’s attention is the currency we all seek. And since attention is limited – in time and intellectual focus – the elevator speech needs to be much more precise. Positioning statements help. But in my experience, there are two aspects that help decision makers better remember our interactions – regardless if it’s introductory, or on-going, and I break in down in this One Minute With Me.

  • Authenticity

    Authenticity

    When someone brings their authentic self to their work environment, they should also wrap it in one more key element.

  • Write A Book

    Write A Book

    It’s the most logical, insightful and inspiring book recommendation I’ve ever heard – and worthy of consideration.

  • Win the Day

    Win the Day

    Ask yourself this one question in the morning, and your perspective about a productive day changes. Here’s the question.

  • 5 Tips for Improved Communication

    5 Tips for Improved Communication

    Improve your communication, relationships and attentiveness with these 5 easy-to-adopt tips.

  • 4 Questions for Mentors

    4 Questions for Mentors

    IN with personal development. OUT with arbitrary goals and negotiated ratings. Here are the four simple questions to evolve someone’s career.

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