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It’s 4:45 PM on a Friday, and someone on Maria’s team is doing the thing they do every Friday: exporting a report from one system, reformatting it in Excel, and re-keying half of it into another system so the numbers line up for Monday’s meeting. It takes about ninety minutes. It has taken about […]
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When you buy executive coaching, do you actually know what you need? Are you paying premium fees for a commodity product or, worse, expecting champagne results on a beer budget? If we take a broad view, coaching contributed an estimated $5.34 billion to the global economy last year (ICF 2025). In a self-regulated industry, it
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Seismic disruptions are reshaping industries with increasing magnitude and frequency.What were once isolated events are now interacting forces—amplifying businessexposure and compressing the time leaders have to respond. Companies still win bysolving real problems customers value, but the assumptions underpinning thoseproblems are becoming more fluid, more interconnected, and harder to predict. This is the defining
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Alyssa Rapp, Author Leadership & Life Hacks: Insights from a Mom, Wife, Entrepreneur & Executive. Good times come with this certainty: They never last. For businesses, that means formidable challenges (a weak economy, new competition, a sea change in the marketplace) are always just around the corner, and unprepared business leaders face the potential for disaster.
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I am professional speaker and after my speeches, people often share stories about their leaders: both the good and the bad. At a recent keynote, I was surprised at the number of positive stories people were telling me about thier CEO. They built a picture of a leader who had led an amazing turnaround in culture and performance.
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Across the corporate world these days, many companies have the walls of their respective locations plastered with various positive statements regarding how upstanding their values are, that their employees matter, etc. In particular, many companies now claim to have an “Open Door” policy when it comes to issue resolution and/or the presentation of ideas. However,
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I definitely made my share of bad hires in the early days as a business owner: The salesperson who never made a sale. The admin who stole our software for her sideline business. The marketing rep who continually fell asleep at her desk and did her personal errands while out of the office on “company
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CEOs typically have their minds made up about most things—social issues, business decisions, social issues. Just ask them. Very few individuals will eagerly invite you to persuade them to take on a new perspective. So if you’re going to get someone to change their behavior, actions, or opinion, you need to do it purposeful. Then
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Rex Conner, Lead Partner & Owner, Mager Consortium The oil & gas industry is just one of many examples of what they call “the big crew change.” They are in the second year of a 7-year stretch in which they are losing 50% of their petro-technical professionals to retirement. If losing a key person or a
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It’s an astonishing statistic, but roughly two out of three change initiatives fail to meet their stated targets. This is significant since most companies must undertake moderate organizational changes at least once a year (and major changes every four or five years) due to disruption from technology, their industry and/or the competition. As a senior
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