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"There comes a point where we need to stop pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in." -Bishop Desmond Tutu Continue reading

Posted May 19, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Leadership Development (not)

If nearly every company recognizes leadership as a critical talent problem, why are so few companies making any progress in addressing it? Because lip service is easier than action. Continue reading

Posted May 17, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Leadership Trust

Employees have a hard time developing trust in their leaders if they're unsure where the overall direction of the organization is headed, and whether that direction is good for them. Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Destination

The path to your destination may be unclear, the destination shouldn't be. Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Strategy

Strategies have intended outcomes and goals - and its critically helpful if those outcomes and goals are clear enough that success or failure will be indisputable. Continue reading

Posted May 14, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Change

You cannot change what you do not measure. Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Goal Clarity

When setting company goals, clarity is king. For example: "We're going to reduce worker days lost due to injuries on or off the job by at least 50%" vs "We're going to build a culture of safety." Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Environment

The process of designing your environment is the process of designing yourself. Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Performance Consequences

Performance consequences do not need to happen every single time to be effective, only the possibility of such consequences is necessary to create accountability. Continue reading

Posted May 9, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Lessons Learned

Turned "lesson learned" into "lessons applied." Continue reading

Posted May 8, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Inner Strength

"Conquering others takes force. Conquering yourself is true strength." - Lao Tzu Continue reading

Posted May 7, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Leadership Gap

Leadership and learning have dramatically increased in importance, but the capability gap is widening. Continue reading

Posted May 1, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Power

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find your strength." - Marcus Aurelius Continue reading

Posted Apr 30, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Mindset

You can only be as happy as your mind is programed to be. Continue reading

Posted Apr 29, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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The Obvious

Managers should be aware that just because something seems obvious after the fact does not mean it could have been predicted. Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Failures

Deliberately study failures. Conduct postmortems on decision processes. Learn from near misses. Reward people who prevent problems from occurring. Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Disagreements

Disagreements in meetings end up benefiting everyone in the long run, because it's far better to learn about problems from colleagues when there's still time to fix them than from your customers after it's too late. Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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High Performance Organizations

In high-performance organizations, there's no place for mediocrity. What about your organization? Continue reading

Posted Apr 25, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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Meaning of Life

"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but...in the development of the soul. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, prisoner of the Gulag Soviet labor camps Continue reading

Posted Apr 24, 2023 at Terry's Blog | Daily strategies, insights and inspiration to help you achieve your potential

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