CATEGORY: LIVED EXPERIENCES I watch founders blame themselves for execution problems that were never theirs to solve. The campaign didn’t work.The launch fell flat.The content strategy fizzled out after three weeks. And the response is almost always the same: “I didn’t execute hard enough.”“I wasn’t consistent enough.”“I need to push harder.” But most failures labeled as […]
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Jonathan Terrell, Founder & President, KCIC On February 5, 2018, I became one of a small number of people from around the globe to complete the World Marathon Challenge — seven marathons, in seven days, on all seven continents. It was a grueling experience, but I was successful because I applied several lessons I’ve learned since
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Aviv Shahar, President, Aviv Consulting What if I told you that 60% of all strategic breakthroughs are lost? Conservative estimates suggest that people in upper management spend as much as 50% of their day in meetings, and nationally there are upwards of 25 million meetings every day in the U.S. But for all the action items,
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Robin Speculand, Founder & CEO, Bridges Business Consultancy Int The pressure to transform your business to integrate digital or to keep up with the competition or to sustain market share is placing the spotlight on organizations execution capabilities. An organization needs both the ability to craft the strategy and the skill to execute it but most
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Kate Purmal and Lisa Goldman, Co-authors, The Moonshot Effect: Disrupting Business as Usual CEO of software company Versaic, Burt Cummings learned the hard way about the importance – and power – of making effective requests. After getting into circular and totally unproductive loops with team members involving miscommunications and missed deadlines, Burt got some advice from
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Bill Ballester During my years as a coach and business consultant, I have been asked many times if there is a secret to winning. I know of no secret; however, I have a very simple answer: ———- teams that solve the most problems win. The answer is that simple: “Those who solve the most problems
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As executives we often have a plan. A quick new vision to execute. Seems simple enough. We explain it. Our smart employees nod their heads, taking the assignment with perceived understanding and we move on to the next order of business. But, then the outcome somehow leaves us…well, wanting. The following example illustrates why. When
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