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Think Clarity: The Key to Highly Effective Leadership Focus (With Video)

by Karin Hurt | Apr 13, 2024 | Asking For a Friend Featured, By Karin Hurt | 0 comments

Leadership’s Focus on Clarity Emerges as Key Antidote to Uncertainty The more challenges you face, the more clear you need to be about which problem is the most important to solve. Today’s Asking for a Friend is with Dr Avnesh (Avi) Ratnanesan talking...

Assumption Busters: 7 Questions to Propel Your Team’s Strategic Thinking

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Jan 1, 2024 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye | 0 comments

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” That’s not just a lack of...

How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Jul 11, 2022 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye | 4 comments

A seemingly no-win scenario is a chance to earn trust, and innovate. There will be times when you face outcomes you don’t like. It’s not ideal, but a now-win scenarios is a chance to stand out, gain trust, and find new solutions. Here are seven ways to...

Seeing Around Corners: How to Know What’s Coming Next (Video)

by Karin Hurt | Apr 30, 2022 | Asking for a Friend, Asking For a Friend Featured | 0 comments

Practical Approaches for Seeing Around Corners: A Conversation with Rita McGrath On, this edition of Asking For a Friend, I talk with Rita McGrath, author of Seeing Around Corners. We discuss, “How to think strategically when you don’t know what’s...

Strategic HR: How to Help Your HR Team Be More Strategic

by Karin Hurt | Nov 14, 2020 | By Karin Hurt, Human Resources, Results & Execution | 0 comments

You want to build a strategic HR team that gets it- compassionate business partners who know their craft AND understand what matters most for the business. Today I offer some thoughts from both sides of the story as both an HR executive and a field leader leading...