Insights That Will Make You Think and Grow — January Summary
January Summary of Insights Our focus is on serving your needs. We publish insights to make you think and grow. On the first Saturday of each month, we post a...
How to Advance When You Have No Clear Career Path
Today, most organizations organizational are reducing levels of management. Further, there are fewer levels of management. Accordingly, your career path is transiting from a Corporate Ladder to a Corporate Lattice. Moreover,...
Business 4.0 — How agile leaders are redefining customer-centric
Every few weeks someone is espousing the virtues of being customer-centric as if it is a breakthrough winning strategy. Customer excellence has worked for centuries and will continue for many...
How A Growth Mindset Becomes A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
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GenY And GenZ’s Lower Tolerance of Ambiguity Is Limiting Their Success
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Emerging Trends You Need to Know About Talent
For the past year, I have been writing about how artificial intelligence (AI) and your workforce. In our insight, AI benefits your business and employees; we advance that choosing to...
Secrets to Excel As A Leader — Asking Questions and Seeking Help
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Why we find it so hard to leave a job—even one we hate
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How Providing Clarity in Decision Roles Enhances Organizational Performance
Every success and mishap; every opportunity seized or missed is the result of a decision that someone made or did not produce. Choices routinely get stuck and affect the performance,...
How to Create High-Performance Decision-Making Teams
Teams have the potential to outperform individuals. High-performance decision-making teams do better because they have the right people working on a task. Team members have diverse skills and perspectives that...
The Board Sets the Direction — Moreover It Sets the Tone
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Parents — Tips You Need to Know to Boost Your High Schooler’s Career Success
As you read the article, please consider what advice you give to your younger self, coming out of high school as you embarked on your career journey. It’s a belief:...
Goal Alignment Program (GAP™) and the Theory of Constraints (TOC)
As highlighted in Viable Vision, using the Theory of Constraints (TOC) most companies today do not seem to have the right roadmap to their vision, which means their vision is not...
Process Praise May Be The Key to Correcting to Gender Balance in STEM
The workplace is changing. So are the skills that employers need. Beyond the traditional career paths requiring a background in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), employers are seeking the...
Powerful Career Advice for Your High School Student
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Just Promoted to Manager? — Here’s Some Secrets to Your Success
Congratulations, you have done it — your first job as a manager. After years of arduous work, you have been promoted to manage a team of people. You are in...
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