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About Your Photograph…

If a picture is worth a thousand words, some people don

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Reminder: Charting A Course Through Desperate Times

Skilled mariners know there is no margin for error when

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Desperate Times

In Spanish, it sounds like a line from an old western m

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Broken Tools and Misused Words

Words are like tools. Over time, misuse, neglect, and c

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Trivial Pursuits

It only required the frustration of some lost Scrabble

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Making a Tough Call

In the rarefied air of executive suites, following a to

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Following a Tough Act

Before America’s Got Talent, American Idol, and The V

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The Terror of a Blank Page

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us g

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Wait A Minute!

Depending on which research, opinion, tweet, or meme yo

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Your Professional Stress Test

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a re

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A POTEMKIN VILLAGE TALE

While the origin of the story is suspect, its meaning a

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A State of Readiness

Our 2021 is off to a great start. Are you and your busi

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Crafting an Unencumbered Life

A year that often seemed upside-down and had an eerie r

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Covid, Your Career, and Newton’s Law

If you are looking for a unique sobriquet for 2020, the

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The Ripples of Covid-19 on HR Leadership

When some stones in life hit water, the ripples never s

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The Myth of the Best Decision

“Indecision may or may not be my problem.”

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A CTA or Ice in Your Stomach?

Online marketers call them CTAs or “call-to-actio

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That Thing You Do

We are often asked questions to clarify what we do.&nbs

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(Un)Conventional Insights

If you crack open Charles Dickens’ 1859 novel A Tale

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Leading from Both Ends of the Pyramid

Do you remember early in 2020 when strategic discussion

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Get Ready for Tomorrow, Today

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come,

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Wind in Your Sails

…continued from a previous blog Our last article

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“Until” is Now

Like an annoying relative that comes for a weekend visi

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Listen, Learn, Lead

The words “listen” and “silent”

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Compounding Talent

“. . . in the next century, we will have to becom

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Wins Above Replacement

In baseball, Wins Above Replacement or “WAR&#8221

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Zoomed Out!

When Ozzie and Harriet were giving us our first taste o

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When Hope Becomes a Strategy

An over-used axiom and the title of a popular book says

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Branding Lessons from the Nicest Guy in the Neighborhood

Conventional wisdom tells us building a brand demands c

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Brands, Risks, and Dragons

Innovation and re-invention are inherently risk-driven

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Branding Lessons From The Architect of Tomorrow

Before he was worth $22 billion, he earned $18 an hour

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New Energy for a Tired Brand

Brands are like buildings. With the right foundation, o

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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing ne

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Brand Consistency

From McDonald’s to 7-Eleven to KFC to Ace Hardwar

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Leading Effectively in the Fourth Revolution

“Adapt or die.” Billy Beane’s iconic

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Brand Turmoil?

For decades, the biggest and most valued companies were

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CEO Tenure, Turmoil, and Turnover

If current trends remain, over 430 people will step int

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Shakespeare and Your Career Brand

The golf brand – Titleist – is derived fr

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Learning…the Hard Way

Whoever said experience is the best teacher should have

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Who’s the HERO of Your Story?

“Ferris Bueller, you’re my hero.” Cam

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Humility, Self-Preservation, and the Art of the Humblebrag

“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of

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Still Flying … Lessons In Resilience

Resilience is making a comeback in our corporate vocabu

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NFL Game Balls

Are Companies Wisest to Buy Results or Potential? (or,

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The Importance of White Space

How much does your life resemble a webpage designed by

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Brand Velocity

The end of year brings with it two extremes – tim

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Digital Technology and the Executive’s Brand

From big data to analytics to artificial intelligence,

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Putting People on the Ledge

The image is so Rockwellian and the setting so unique t

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Winning The Corporate Long Game

What can an executive looking for career longevity lear

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Toxic Collaboration

If you feel like most of your day is invested in email,

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Lasting Impressions

“How you begin is how you are listened to, and ho

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Energizing Executive Innovation

“Let him that would move the world, first move hi

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Thank You For Your Feedback…I Have No Plans To Change My Behavior

Ask ten CEOs if their organizations promote a high-perf

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Our Labradoodle Does Not Shed!

Our 6-year old Labradoodle, Ziba, does not shed! Well,

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The Ripple Effect

Sometimes we see a person or organization share somethi

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Is There a Blueprint for Success?

When a statement is attributed to a Roman philosopher,

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The Ruse of Experience

The growth of technology and social media has generated

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Hire Maturity … What’s In A Name?

Peter Gudmundsson – one of our valued Advisory Bo

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In the Story of Your Brand, the Hero Isn’t You

Since campaigning for class office in junior high, Lesl

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Transforming Learning & Development

From time to time we share content from another HR solu

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Branding Lessons From P.T. Barnum

Branding is building a reputation and crafting a messag

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Have You Missed Your Window?

Life is full of misses: Missing the boat. Missing the m

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How to Know When It Is Time To Go

What do Jeff Immelt, Travis Kalanick, and Howard Schult

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Why Go Green?

From Henry David Thoreau’s Maine Woods to Theodor

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Is Your Brand Positioning You for Your Next Job?

The perks of some jobs are nothing short of regal. How

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EXECUTIVE PRESENCE: It’s More Than Commanding a Room

Executive recruiters look for it.  Leadership surveys

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Leadership, Loyalty, and a Leader’s Brand

Does one question really tell it all? If it tells the s

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Putting a New Edge on Ockham’s Razor

Hanlon’s is funny – “Never attribute

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You Can’t Build a Puzzle if all the Pieces are Round

Those jigsaw puzzles with pieces that are all the same

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A Step Up or a Push Out? The CFO’s Choice

Google the phrase “CFO Departures” and the headline

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Size, Synergy, and a Successful Search

What do Kraft, Motorola, and Abbott have in common? The

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Is It Time To Re-Own Your Career?

As an executive, you have encouraged associates to own

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Your Brand Isn’t What You Do. Your Brand is the Impact You Bring.

Companies aren’t buying what many executives are sell

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New Personal Branding Service for Senior Executives

NEWS RELEASE  New Personal Branding Service for Senior

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Gone to Texas

The Texas Talent Grab As scores of people (including a

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Blaise Pascal, Candidate Parades, and Your Next Hire

What do 17th century mathematician Blaise Pascal and yo

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Pecking Order Theory and the Search for the Super Candidate

If pecking order comes up in a business conversation, t

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Fired Up!

As we depart 2016, we look back at an outstanding year.

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Talent Management or Leader Engagement?

When did taking responsibility for developing people in

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Be Like Lane’s

 ” . . . It’s easy. We just treat people t

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Executive Assessments: Art or Science?

From time to time we like to feature insights from a tr

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15 in ’16: Chapter 3

15 years ago George W. Bush was in the early stages of

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How to Get Your CEO to Listen to You

 Want to influence, drive change, advance your career

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15 in ’16: Chapter 2

Last month we shared about our journey to the present (

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Overcoming Personal Constraints

Our commitment to building relationships w/ HR leaders,

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15 in ’16: Chapter 1

2016 will mark a significant occasion…our 15th ye

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Purpose Driven People

Studies show that purpose-driven people are more satisf

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The Perception of Competence

At the executive level, we are surrounded by individual

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Maintaining Momentum on Your #1 Priority

We learned something new about trains over the holidays

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Why you need to know Rougned Odor!

Many of you do not consider yourselves baseball fans&#8

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Which Markets Do You Serve?

We are often asked questions related to our market foot

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’13, 13, 13!

It is always hard to believe that another year has flow

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Talent Tales – Clayton Gammill of EY

We recently spoke with Clayton Gammill, a Principal in

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Talent Tales – Scott Smith of AT&T

Talent Tales is a quarterly resource that provides insi

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Care to Vote

Since today is National Voter Registration Day, we want

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Hit the Nail on the Head

Have you ever seen someone try to drive a nail using so

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2011 Holiday Marketing

Fall has arrived and, in some areas of the country, it

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Business 2010

With a stabilizing economy that is expected to continue

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Leveraging Expertise

HR Career Development Series Critical Concern White Pap

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Why Go Green?

Sure, there has been a lot of talk about it, plenty of

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Survey Reveals Focus on Executive Talent

Many companies are seeing current economic trends as an

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This is a Leap(Frog) Year!

Yes, more and more signs point to the undeniable conclu

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