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How the Best Leaders Energize Their People Every Day
If you’re like most leaders, the days can be long and filled with millions of things to do, and it’s easy to lose sight of your energy. And the same is true of the people on your team. Ideally, the work you do every day should be energizing, but part of leadership is...
5 Reasons Why You Need to Lead With Audacious Questions
“The smart ones ask when they don’t know. And sometimes when they do.” —Malcolm Forbes No one wants to look stupid, naive, or as if they do not know what they are doing, which is why so many of us are reticent about asking questions. Whether your leadership style is...
5 priceless leadership Communication lessons learned the Hard Way
An early career mentor of mine -- a senior leader -- regularly reminded me, "Art, you'll go as far as you can communicate."I took him seriously, and I worked hard to emulate his energetic, confident stage style, and thoughtful one-on-one demeanor. And while "presence"...
Why the True Margins Are in How You Use Your Data
I have done a lot of research over the past few months on how data is impacting other industries. This research has compelled me to create a new presentation, which I am now rolling out on the JBKnowledge ConTech Roadshow events, along with other selected conferences...
3 Tips for More Effective Email
Manage the Volume, Reduce the Stress, Love the Results Email has become the essential communication tool that many professionals love to hate. Even the most important customer transactions, internal operations, and supplier partnerships transpire through email. Emails...
Don’t Let Limited Perspective Destroy Your Team
Recently, I’ve watched an organization of passionate and caring people disintegrate. The limited perspective of leaders and team members has frustrated communication and problem-solving. They’ve devolved into camps of us vs. them. It can happen to any team if you...
The sweet Spot Between too much and “Just Right” Planning
You can’t do that. It’s not in the plan.”How many times have you heard that line spoken at work? Business plans, contingency plans, succession plans, project plans and the planning that goes into them are all good—until they aren’t.Plans bring order and continuity....
What executives are reading in 2019
We have books on the brain, with the recent release of the Financial Times–McKinsey Business Book of the Year long list. (See coverage of last year’s winner, Bad Blood, on our blog, and check back December 3, when the 2019 award is given.)There’s inspiration aplenty...
The What and Why of Business Transformation in 2019
When you consider some of the global businesses that have seen rapid growth in the past decade, many of these are following disruptive models rely on the gig economy and turn the way we traditionally considered running a business on its head. The brains behind these...