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Knowing how your people think can be your superpower

Knowing How Your People Think Is a Superpower

Oct 23, 2024

Think you know your people? Think again. Talent misalignment is costing you millions—maybe more. Let’s get straight to the point: if you are leading a team without understanding ...

Scaling Leaders face the brutal facts and confront hard truths

Leadership Scaling Up

Comfort is the Enemy of Growth - Why Scaling Leaders Confront Brutal Facts

Oct 20, 2024

Scaling Leaders Do Not Dodge Uncomfortable Realities. What if I told you the biggest threat to your company’s growth is not your competitors, but your refusal to confront the ...

Find the most believable people possible who disagree with you and try to understand their reasoning." - Ray Dalio

Leadership

Unleash the Power of Your Team: Why Smart Leaders Mine for the Best Ideas, Not Their Own

Oct 13, 2024

The best ideas win. Let us cut through the noise and get to the heart of what it takes to win. Founders, CEOs, and leaders who believe that their vision alone is enough to drive ...

The Fifth Rockefeller Habit - Engage employees for feedback

Rockefeller Habits

The Rockefeller Habit #5 - Employee input is collected to identify obstacles and opportunities.

Oct 3, 2024

The Fifth Rockefeller Habit - Knowledge is Power In the high-stakes world of business leadership, knowledge is power, and one of the most valuable sources of knowledge is right ...

Rockefeller Habits

The Rockefeller Habit #6 - Reporting and Analysis of Customer Feedback Data is as Frequent and Accurate as Financial Data

Oct 3, 2024

You Are Ignoring Your Most Valuable Asset: Customer Feedback If you are treating customer feedback as an afterthought, you are already losing. Stop. The harsh reality is this: ...

Scaling Up

Scaling Fast? Why Transformational Leadership is the Only Path to Sustainable Growth

Oct 1, 2024

The clock is ticking. Your company is growing fast, but let me ask you this: do you have the right leadership framework in place to sustain this growth, or are you relying on ...

Adoption of the Rockefeller Habits is your key to operating in Founder Mode

Rockefeller Habits Founder Mode

Unlocking Founder Mode: The Rockefeller Habits You Must Master to Scale

Sep 26, 2024

The data does not lie. Fortune recently published Is 'founder mode' or 'manager mode' better? Here's what the 22 Fortune 500 companies still run by founders show The data screams. ...

Reduce friction and drama in your team through Behavioral Style and Driving Forces Awareness

Mindset Team Effectiveness

How to Mitigate Unnecessary Team Drama Using Psychometric Assessments

Sep 24, 2024

Show me a team that is unaware of one another's personality styles and I will show you a team with unnecessary friction and drama. There is a "personality storm" brewing in every ...

The key to scaling up is hiring only A Players - the top 20 percent who produce 80 percent of the results

Scaling Up Team Effectiveness

Scaling Up: Pareto Optimality and The Power of Building an A-Player Team

Sep 20, 2024

Those who command the best talent dominate the market. The war for talent is relentless, and the stakes could not be higher. You cannot afford to simply have a team of ...

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