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3 Steps to Deepen Business Success

By Chris Stark, Strategy Magazine, July 2015

For decades, leaders chanted the mantra, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” It was common practice for leaders to push themselves and their people to the limit, all in service to the god of productivity. Then, in 1949, an unknown columnist for the Tulsa Times flipped the order to, “Don’t just do something … sit there.” Shortly thereafter, this saying was picked up by the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower in dealing with his direct reports. Read More

How To Be Taken Seriously As A Young Leader

By Justin Foster, Fast Company, July 2015

Young leaders (35 and under) possess self-confidence, drive, and creative thinking. Yet they often struggle with how to present themselves as leaders when working with leaders from older generations. Regardless of age, it’s important to cultivate what I call your Leadership Brand. It is a blend of self-worth, talent, value, and perception that is unique to each person, regardless of role or title.Read More

Introverted Leaders and Conflict Resolution

Interview with Andy Johnson, wsRadio, July 2015

On this edition of The Doug Noll Show, we have with us Andy Johnson. Andy Johnson is an executive coach and team health specialist with Price Associates. He specializes in working with yin leaders and with teams in preventing, resolving conflict and moving toward health. Read More

4 Strategies For Clearly Communicating Expectations

By Steve Morris, Fast Company, June 2015

We once worked with Jack, a new leader who was having trouble getting his small team of programmers to deliver computer code on time and at the quality he expected.

Each Monday he assigned work verbally during brief phone meetings with his remotely located engineers. During one meeting he said: “We’ll need the code for the first page of the basket project by Friday.” Read More

4 Ways You’re Getting it Wrong When It Comes to Leadership Development

By Ron Price, Strategy Magazine, May 2015

When it comes to leadership development, organizations are operating in a completely different arena than they were even five years ago. Developing leaders into today’s business climate has a unique set of challenges. The leadership drought—with Boomers turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day and a sheer lack of bodies at the next level to replace them—combined with the leadership gap—Gen Xers and Millennials without the necessary experience to lead—have created a substantial deficiency for both the quantity and quality of leadership.Read More

Using Talent Science for Competitive Advantage

By Ron Price, Training Magazine, May 2015

Talent science has been around for nearly 10 decades: Starting in the 1920s, psychologists studied talent and began developing models of behavior and motivation. These assessments include tests you’ve probably heard of—Myers Briggs Type Indicator and DISC (behavioral styles based on dominance, influence, steadiness, and compliance), as well as assessments for personal interests, attitudes, and values (currently referred to as workplace motivators).Read More

6 Proven Ways to Reduce Costly Employee Turnover

By Mindy Bortness, Women on Business, April 2015

Brands targeting the teen market have a business model to produce and price goods inexpensively, anticipating the mentality of “disposability” that exists within their target audience. Sadly, many businesses work from that same mentality in their approach in hiring employees. And, unlike a pair of shorts from Forever 21, replacing employees is very costly.Read More

3 Ways to Develop a Story That Will Resonate with Customers

By Dr. Ranjit Nair Ph.D., Strategy for Life Magazine, April 2015

Twenty years ago, I used to listen to a San Francisco-based radio show every Friday at 4:59 p.m., right at the onset of happy hour and the beginning of the weekend. The show was a minute-long run down of the day’s headline news and ended with the announcer, Scoop Nisker, proclaiming, “If you don’t like the news you just heard, then go out and make some of your own!” Read More

3 Lessons Your Team Can Learn From the Sport of Rowing

By Whit Mitchell, All Business Experts, April 2015

Have you ever been on a high-performing team? I mean truly high performing, where the synchronicity of all members is so fine-tuned that it feels effortless the harder you push?

For those of you who have had the pleasure of watching a 2000-meter crew race, you have seen “symphony in motion.” The bodies moving in perfect harmony, the shell slicing through the water with precision.Read More

Is Your Company Prepared for the Leadership Drought?

By Ron Price, all Business, March 2015

The business community will see a significant change in the leadership landscape over the next five years — and it’s a shift that has already started. Each day, 10,000 baby boomers reach retirement age. These are the leaders who are currently leading major companies and holding senior leadership positions at almost every level, and they’re exiting the workforce at an alarming rate.Read More

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