A Frog in a Well Cannot Conceive of the Sea: Leadership Overreach Through History
At a company I once worked for, our COO was a brilliant engineer. He had been a GE vice president […]
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Communicating the Problem and the Solution in a clear, understandable way to the right audience in the right format.
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Do You Show Signs of Hubris Syndrome?
Introduction In 2009, Lord David Owen, a former UK Foreign Secretary and physician, described a pattern he observed in leaders
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Metonymy in Leadership: At the Intersection of Spineless and Politics
I was listening to a podcast by the incomparable Stephen Fry called The Seven Deadly Sins, and he mentioned metaphor
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Must Win or Can’t Lose?
Decoding Management’s Favorite Euphemisms for Panic Every team has heard them: “This is a must-win.” “It’s ours to lose.” “We can’t afford to
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The Perils of Perpetual Alliteration in Professional Presentations: A PowerPoint Predicament
When Clever Content Kills Clear Communications Alliteration can sound impressive and add flair to a presentation — but too much
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etcetera
Don’t be Lazy Before you complete your thought with the word “etc.” add 3 more items to the list. If
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The customers usually don’t know what they’re getting until they don’t get it.
This is the problem with service, as explained by Theodore Levitt in The Marketing Imagination. The most important thing to
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How To Give Advice: 150 AD Version
LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA120 AD -200 AD Advice has two provinces — one of choice, the other of avoidance; let us