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10X Yourself as a CEO with AI
10X Yourself as a CEO with AI There is a lot of talk about leveraging artificial intelligence to transform companies. I think many CEOs are starting in the wrong place,…
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As a leader your are never done learning – knowledge is everything. You are only ever as good as what you know and the target of understanding is always moving. You need to sat “green and growing.” Never approach your role from a place of knowing. Instead let curiosity be your default approach to problem solving and decision making.
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Don’t Let Life Just Happen to You
Don’t Let Life Just Happen to You A Different Setting, A Different Perspective I’ve come to believe that most people don’t stop growing because they get older. They stop growing…
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How to Ask for Help Without Making Yourself Look Bad
In a work world that values ownership and personal initiative, many assume that asking for direction or seeking…
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The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
Wisdom for Everyday Struggles Despite working hard and meeting our goals, it’s sometimes unclear why we aren’t advancing…
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Leadership Wheel Assessment Tool
Balanced leaders build balanced teams. When you model clear priorities, smart decisions, and steady communication, your team moves…
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McKinsey & Company – 100 Articles on Generative AI
This isn’t just a content dump—it’s a roadmap. McKinsey’s collection provides leaders with a structured approach to explore…
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The Power and Importance of Leadership Curiosity
Integrate being curious into your daily routines. Challenge yourself and your team to think differently, question assumptions, and…
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Leaders Should Be Reading
As you advance in your career, your role shifts from executing tasks to engaging in critical thinking and…
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How To Be A Leader: An Ancient Guide To Wise Leadership
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership Lead with wisdom, not just willpower.What if…
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Leadership Lessons from Jeff Shaara’s “The Frozen Hours”
Jeff Shaara's "The Frozen Hours" offers more than a historical narrative; it's a treasure trove of leadership wisdom.…
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10 Things I Wish My Clients Weren’t So Slow to Learn
As a business advisor who has worked with hundreds of businesses over the past 25 years, from startups…
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Financial Primer for Clients
Whether you’re just getting comfortable with your balance sheet or need a deeper understanding of ratios, cash flow,…
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How to Read a Business Book
More than 1,000 new business books are released each month in the United States alone. The good ones…
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Martin Luther King As A Leader
Donald T. Phillips, in his book Martin Luther King on Leadership, does an impressive job of providing significant…
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97 Reasons Why Business Growth Stalls
Growth is hard work. For the past 27 years, I’ve worked as an executive coach, Vistage Chair, trainer…
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Strategic Planning Outline
A Foundation for Vision and Growth A strategic planning outline serves as a foundational guide for businesses to…
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Growth Institute
At its core, Growth Institute is an online executive education platform designed specifically for business owners, CEOs, and…
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IA Blue Book
The Insights Association Standards Behind Trustworthy Data—and Why It Matters More Than You Think Most business owners rely…
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Greenbook
Greenbook: Turning Data Into Insight—and Insight Into Better Decisions Most businesses are not lacking data. If anything, they’re…
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MarketResearch.com
MarketResearch.com: Depth Over Guesswork—When You Need to Know, Not Assume There’s a difference between having an opinion… and…
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Six reasons successful leaders love questions
Asking questions and listening to the questions of others helps leaders make better decisions.
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On Leadership and Business Book Excerpts Sections 3-5 by Ed Robinson
I believe that business and nonprofit leaders need to think differently about what constitutes success. Besides the quality…
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On Leadership and Business Book Excerpts Sections 1-2 by Ed Robinson
The leadership journey requires you to cogitate constantly on the role you and others should be playing. As…
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Critical Thinking Is About Asking Better Questions
Critical thinking is the ability to analyze and effectively break down an issue in order to make a…
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You Are Now Less Dumb
You Are Now Less Dumb won’t turn you into a perfect thinker—but it will make you reliably less…
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PMP Industry Insider Podcast – Episode 37: How To Build A Network to Get You To The Next Level
“You can’t get to the next level by yourself. The higher you go in leadership, the lonelier it…
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Coaching Real Leaders Podcast
HBR Coaching Leaders Podcast: What Leadership Really Looks Like—When the Answers Aren’t Obvious Most leadership advice sounds clean.…
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Business Forecasts Are Reliably Wrong — Yet Still Valuable
Business forecasts are often wrong — and yet they can still be a powerful tool for savvy leaders…
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Visual Capitalist
Visual Capitalist: Making Sense of a World That’s Moving Faster Than You Can Process We’re not short on…
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Think Again
The book shows how to replace overconfidence and stubborn certainty with confident humility and a scientist mindset: form…
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Free Business Lessons – Harvard Business School Online
Harvard Business School online business courses Why Most Learning Doesn’t Change Behavior—and What Actually Does Most business owners…
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Intentional learning in practice: A 3x3x3 approach
Intentional learning is about getting more out of the moments of our day. Every project, every meeting, every…
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