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Do you listen to your team and get the “right” strategy?

July 7, 2014/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

We have added Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, by Liz Wiseman, to our Top Picks (Recommendations) Book List and would highly encourage you to read it. You may wonder why we’ve classified this blog as Strategy and Focus. Well, that’s a good question. As we were reading the book, I (Tom) began […]

Selling? Me?

June 23, 2014/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

We have always believed that every team member has a sales aspect to their job, be it internal or external. Unfortunately, when we say “sales,” it often conjures up negative thoughts and feelings. In his latest book, To Sell Is Human, Daniel Pink (author of Drive) — once again sighting some pretty compelling research — makes several […]

I want to get better!

June 9, 2014/in Ideas to help you build a solid team/by Tom Doescher

After working with a number of clients, it has become clear to us that we are incredibly fortunate to have received more developmental feedback than most of our peers. That being said, we were also fortunate to have been the recipients of a lot of mentoring, which we admit we may have taken for granted. […]

Tribute to Jae Doescher

May 26, 2014/in Nuggets and Encouragement Regarding Strategy and Focus/by Tom Doescher

On February 17, 2014, our 29-year-old daughter died; in this blog, we hope to pay tribute to her. We weren’t sure exactly how we were going to provide business advice to you and, at the same time, honor Jae, but then it dawned on us. Just like you, there were things in Jae’s life that […]

Are you good at giving good developmental feedback? How are you at receiving good developmental feedback?

May 12, 2014/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

We have read many books and articles about “giving” feedback. We have written about “giving” feedback. At the Center for Creative Leadership, we were trained on how to “give” feedback. But we have never read or heard any advice about “receiving” feedback. Once again, the Harvard Business Review (January 2014, “Finding the Coaching in Criticism“) […]