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Kyle manages a group of estimators for a regional construction company. His team is responsible for estimating building projects such as large hospitals, sports stadiums, and multi-use downtown developments. His dozen or so team members are busy, busy, busy. They can also be sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. When they miss something, the company has to

Introduction: Walking into my first all-day Strategic Planning session as the coach of a vital county non-profit, I admit I was a little nervous. Soon, learning that one of the participants had marked this day in her calendar as “Strategic Planning Misery” instead of “Strategic Planning Meeting” did not calm my nerves. I had a

Where should we focus our attention – on shoring up our weaknesses or on improving in areas where we are already strong? One of my favorite stories about the tension between focusing on strengths versus addressing weaknesses comes from the world of professional basketball. Shaquille O’Neal was a dominant big man in the NBA

I learned to ride a bicycle when I was four or five years old. Like most people, rode a bike a lot as a kid, and then I occasionally rode through my early teenage years until learning to drive a car. Until last month, I don’t think I’d ridden a bicycle for maybe 30+

Early one morning, I pulled up to Rick’s tire sales shop, shut off my truck, and began to gather myself. Rick had agreed to meet me early at his shop for a one-on-one referral meeting. I had met Rick at a networking event, so this concept of a one-on-one meeting was something he was

When I was in grade school, it seemed a permission slip was required for just about anything outside the norm. Leave early? You needed permission. Walk to the principal’s office? You’d better have a permission slip. Missed class to go to the doctor? The permission slip better be signed by the doc! It all
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