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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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Strategic Intent
The strategic intent of your strategy is to guide behavior. www.terrymckennaspeaks.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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#Strategy
Leaders should treat strategy as a 2-step process. Step 1 is determining the right strategy. Step 2 is communicating it in a way that allows it to become part of the organizational vocabulary. Both steps are necessary. Unfortunately, many organizations stop at Step 1. 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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#Leadership
Humility in the service of ambition is the most effective mindset for leaders who aspire to do big things in a world with huge unknowns. www.terrymckennaspeaks.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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Developing People
Organizations tend to assign people based on what they're already good at, not what they need to work on. That's a tension every organization must deal with in order to become more successful. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Nov 11, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Organizational Focus
In every organization, a significant percentage of people are working on the wrong things. The challenge is knowing which ones. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Nov 10, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Strategy
The first rule of strategy is that how you think shapes how you compete. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Nov 5, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership
The most effective leaders listen first and speak last. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Nov 4, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Words Are Cheap Actions Are Priceless
You've heard the saying "Employees are our most valuable asset." For most executives these are just words they throw out there to make people feel good. While they may be accepted as true, few leaders alter their behavior or make decisions upon them. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Nov 3, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Strategic Intent
Employees won't suffer from decision paralysis as long as the strategic intent is clear. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 30, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership Action
How would you want the leaders in your organization to answer this question: The single most important thing we must do tomorrows is? www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Emotion
Extraordinary performance is as much about authentic emotion as it is about advanced engineering. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 28, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership and Listening
As leaders, having the ability to be fully present and listen with an open mind is often the most powerful way to solve issues. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 27, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Opportunities vs. Problems
It's far wiser to list opportunities on the first page and leave problems for the second page. Problems should not be discussed in management meetings until opportunities have been analyzed and properly dealt with. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 25, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Talent Development Focus
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. And yet most people, especially organizations, concentrate on making incompetent performers into mediocre ones. Energy, resources, and time should be invested towards making a competent person into... Continue reading
Posted Oct 24, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership
True character is revealed by what leaders do in difficult times. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 23, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Culture
A noble and worthy goal is to create a culture that will outlast its leaders. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 21, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Workplace-Marketplace
You can't be special, distinctive, and exceptional in the marketplace unless you create something special, distinctive, and exceptional in the workplace. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Decision Making Criteria
Does your organization have a "decision-making criteria?" How often do you evaluate and challenge it? www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Personality Tests
Personality type tests do not predict outcomes such as job success and satisfaction. Therefore, weigh them accordingly. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 16, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Recharging
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means a waste of time." -John Lubbock www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Laser-like Focus
Narrowing your focus increases both accountability and the engagement of your team. Remember, if everything is important then nothing is important! www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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Do Gooder
If we want to be good and feel good, we have to do good. There is no escaping this. Dive in when you hear the cry for help. Reach out when you see the need. Do kindness where you can. Otherwise you'll have to find a way to live with... Continue reading
Posted Oct 13, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Culture
If you're interested in changing the culture of your organization, your first step should be to look in the mirror and make sure you are setting the kind of behavioral example you want everyone else to follow. www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#CorporateCulture
Does your company pay as much attention to psychology and emotion as it does technology and efficiency? * www.terrymckennaspeaks.com Continue reading
Posted Oct 9, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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#Leadership Trust
As a leader, it takes strength to let go. It takes faith and trust in subordinates, frontline leaders and their abilities. Most of all, it requires trust up and down the chain of command: trust that subordinates will do the right thing, and trust that superiors will support subordinates if... Continue reading
Posted Oct 8, 2019 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential
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