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Terry McKenna
Kure Beach, NC
Helping organizations & individuals realize their potential
Interests: Beach, Travel, Working out, Reading, Personal Development, Pittsburgh Steelers
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Priority Shift
Priorities can and will rapidly shift and change. When this happens, communication of that shift to the rest of your team, both up and down the chain of command is crucial. The team must have the ability to quickly reprioritize efforts and rapidly adapt to a constantly changing competitive landscape.... Continue reading
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#Opportunity
Sometimes, the greatest opportunity resides in the darkest places. * www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
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#Leadership Action
You get paid for being right first, and to be first, you can't wait for consensus. * www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Collective Intelligence
As a organization, we are already more intelligent than we are as individuals. We are part of a collective intelligence. * www.terrymckennaspeakes.com Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Competition
In a global economy, standards of performance are rising more quickly and more broadly than ever before, leaving subpar performers no place to hide. * www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Complacency
Stretch goals make complacency impossible. Develop a healthy disregard for the impossible. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted 7 days ago at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Motivation
Feeling motivated gets you to act. Feeling successful gets you to repeat. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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We Only Have The Present
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." -Bill Keane, cartoonist. This present is in our possession, but it has an expiration date, a quickly approaching one. If you enjoy all of it, it will be enough. It can last a... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Potential
The most meaningful question is this: are you becoming the type of person you want to become? * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Habits
Your habits shape your identity, and your identity shapes your habits. It's a two-way street. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Data
In our data-driven world, we tend to overvalue numbers and undervalue anything ephemeral, soft, and difficult to quantify. Just because you can measure something doesn't mean it's the most important thing. And just because you can't measure something doesn't mean it's not important at all. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Mar 12, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Action vs Motion
When you're in motion, you're planning and strategizing, and learning. Those are all good things, but they don't produce a result. Action on the other hand, is the type of behavior that will deliver an outcome. If motion doesn't lead to results, why do we do it? We do it... Continue reading
Posted Mar 11, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Reframing
I once read a story about a man who uses a wheelchair. When asked if it was difficult being confined, he responded, "I'm not confined to my wheelchair - I'm liberated by it. If it wasn't for my wheelchair I would be bed-bound and never able to leave my house."... Continue reading
Posted Mar 10, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Goals vs. Systems
Goals are good for setting direction, but systems are best for making progress. Problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems that enable you to achieve your goals. Terry's Blog" www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Habits
Bad habits repeat themselves not because you don't want to change but because you have the wrong system for change. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Perception
It is our perceptions of things, rather than the things themselves, that cause the most trouble. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Goal Setting
Structured goal setting and continuous communication, with rigor and imagination, you will see exponentially greater productivity and innovation throughout your organization. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Branding
When you look at your brand through the eyes of your customers rather than your own, what do you see? How are these two views different? * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Are You Committed?
The strength of your commitment depends on your answers to two basic questions: What do you really want? And what to you really believe? * Terry's Bolg: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Motivation
How does your organization motivate employees: extrinsic or intrinsic? If you must use extrinsic motivators, then do so to reinforce intrinsic motivation. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Feb 24, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Public Scoreboards
Teams don't play at their best unless they are emotionally engaged, and that happens when they can tell if they are winning or losing. Do your teams know the score? The key to engagement is a big, visible, continually updated scoreboard that is compelling to the players. * Terry's Blog:... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Risk
Understanding risk allows you to more accurately value the risk - and lets be clear, there's always risk. * Terry's Blog: www.terrymckenna.typepad.com Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Human Capital vs. Financial Capital
The economy is increasingly based not on financial capital but on human capital, and how the abilities of the people in an organization, much more than traditionally important factors like economies of scale or patent protections, determine an organization's success or failure. * www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Goal Setting
Research shows that the poorest performers don't set goals; they just slog through their work. Mediocre performers set goals that are general and are often focused on simply achieving a good outcome - get the new project proposal written. The best performers set goals that are not about the outcome... Continue reading
Posted Feb 18, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Coaching
Anyone who thinks they've outgrown the benefits of a coach's help should at least question that view. There's a reason why the world's best athletes and aspiring musicians still go to coaches. One of those reasons goes beyond the coach's knowledge. It's his or her ability to see you in... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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