“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.” —Michael Porter “This year just feels different.” It’s one of those ...
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Maximize talent by making it a budget priority
It’s budget season. What are you buying in 2020? The vast majority of you are planning those investments now. The tools we buy will ...
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The Value of Intangible Assets – Your People
When we analyze our businesses, we’re drawn to look at the numbers provided to us by our accountants: cash flow statements, balance sheets, and income statements. And when we look beyond these to other numbers, they are typically derivatives that make up the former reports: sales, gross margin, etc. As managers, we tend to evaluate ...
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Letter From the Chairman – Magnetic Culture, Do You Have It?
BOB WILSON, FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF ADVISA, WRITES A QUARTERLY CHAIRMAN’S LETTER. BOB’S LETTERS SKILLFULLY INCORPORATE HIS YEARS OF CONSULTING EXPERIENCE INTO REAL-LIFE STORIES. ...
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3 Keys to Help Develop Your Leaders
Knowing Ain’t Doing I know I’m supposed to eat salads and workout. I’ll have improved mental health, a trimmer waistline, less risk of certain diseases, live longer, etc. It’s not that I’m NOT aware of these benefits. After a long day, I’d rather eat a burrito and watch TV than eat a bowl of kale ...
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The Leadership Transition + Succession Planning
Begin with the end in mind. Transitioning leadership is a challenge all companies must endure at some point. It can be hard to give up control of something you’ve invested everything in, but it doesn’t have to be as challenging as it first appears. As I began to transition out of the role of CEO, ...
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A Downside to Record Low Unemployment: Ghosting
With the unemployment rate hovering around a low 3.9%, people have more choices than ever before in where they work, and when they leave. I was about 25 years old and incredibly excited about a new sales position with a great company. The branding was there; along with a fashionable workspace and a chance to ...
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Chairman’s Letter: Planning for Succession
Why successful succession assures the posterity of the business (or your function). People (my mother included) say I’m a very lucky man – because I’m able, at my stage in life, to spend most of my time doing those things I love doing – at work (consulting, coaching, training, strategizing); and personally (spending time with ...
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Don’t Get Boycotted
The Urgent “What? Why? & How?” of Company Values We live in a volatile, polarized society now. Most of us don’t want that. Yet it’s a reality of the present. Whatever your views or opinions, you are entitled to them as an individual. As a business owner or leader, it is essential to be proactive ...
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Chairman’s Letter: All (PI®) Profiles Are Beautiful
discovering THE UNIQUE BEAUTY of the “STRAIGHT LINE” PROFILE If you’ve been to our Carmel office and used our powder rooms, you’ve seen the above statement (All (PI®) Profiles Are Beautiful) displayed next to each of the mirrors. It’s true. In almost 34 years of working with the Predictive Index® tool, I’ve had the opportunity ...
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