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Culture & Structure
What’s Your Experiential Intelligence?
As I prepare for the launch of NYC's Emerging Leadership Program, I was looking for a way to describe the 12...
How to Speed Up Your Sales Cycle
How would you speed up your sales cycle? Recently, a colleague shared with me an article on calculating your sales...
What We Can Learn From a Top Police Commissioner
Leaders leave legacies. One of the top police commissioners was Bill Bratton who started reducing crime in Boston and...
Accountability Gives Winners An Advantage
If you believe that accountability is all about finding ways to blame people when things go wrong, you’re missing the...
Flip the Meeting
Ask people to rate how productive meetings are and you tend to get results like I did on Google: “A recent...
Leadership
Do you Love the Problem You’re Solving?
Entrepreneurs are often recognized for the solutions they discover and create. Steve Jobs will always be recognized...
Thought Leaders Need Excellent Presentation Skills
Do you want to be a thought leader? Yes, it’s necessary to have insights that are meaningful to others. But not...
Use Visual Thinking for Clarity and Persuasion
Having spent over 15 years helping 5000 clients use visual models to present more effectively, through my former...
Leaders Need to Start Right
It’s not easy to make transitions effectively; but managing it well is critical to long-term success. William...
Are You Asking These Five Questions?
Leaders need to keep their teams challenged. They don’t need to have all the answers; rather they need to ask the...
Presentations & Communication
Focus On Strategy, Not Tactics
What’s your plan? Are You relying on Strategy or tactics? Whether it’s life in general or business in specific, we...
Can Journaling make you a Better Presenter
For the last three decades, we’ve helped executives at every stage of development become better presenters. Our...
Put on Your Presentation Hat Before You Negotiate
Veronica Dagher’s article “The Complete Guide to Haggling” reminded me that, while some people love haggling most of...
Three-to-Five Points is More than Enough
When you’re pitching an audience to get them to purchase a product or service or to accept a new idea that you’re...
Win More Deals By Disclosing Strategic Trade-offs
Recently, a group of CEOs and I were discussing strategy: how to design it, execute it, and hold people accountable...
Strategy
Focus On Strategy, Not Tactics
What’s your plan? Are You relying on Strategy or tactics? Whether it’s life in general or business in specific, we...
Flip the Meeting
Ask people to rate how productive meetings are and you tend to get results like I did on Google: “A recent...
What’s Your Purpose Statement?
One of the initial tasks of every company is to articulate the corporate identify so management, employees and...
Persuasion Requires More than Storytelling
Telling someone about “Little Red Ridinghood” is into the same as telling someone to invest in your start-up or next...
What’s the Source of Your Presentation Power?
When you makes a product service or idea, you presentation goal is to influence the other party. The power of the...
Trends
9 Ways to Use ChatGPT for Business Development, Marketing and Networking
ChatGPT is a very powerful tool that can be used for various purposes in business development, marketing, and...
How to Present Yourself for Career Advancement
Most people give you advice on what to do. It’s refreshing when someone takes the opposite tact. Carter Cast, in The...
Is An Outdated LinkedIn Profile Negatively Impacting Your Career?
By Point Road Group Before and after you give a presentation, people look you up on LinkedIn. Does your profile make a...
What Impact Will Digital Automation Have on Your Business?
How do you plan for the future of automation? When I’m teaching college students, I ask them to look at the jobs...
Another Stereotype Hits the Dust
Working with Age Brilliantly and teaching the Psychology of Aging, I have the opportunity almost weekly to see current...
Other
Are You Investing in Yourself?
Warren Buffet is an excellent investor, in part because he’s a good judge of character. To what does he attribute his...
Prepare for the Future; It’s Here Already
In our April Newsletter, we included an article about AI, which included a discount to an invaluable educational...
How To Use Compounding Within Your Business
There’s magic in the power of compounding. Warren Buffett once said, “My wealth has come from a combination of living...
Shifting To A Four-Day Workweek? Here’s What You Need To Keep In Mind
While convention has dictated that employees must work five days a week, that could soon change. Recent findings from...
How to Present Yourself for Career Advancement
Most people give you advice on what to do. It’s refreshing when someone takes the opposite tact. Carter Cast, in The...