Category: Career
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Nobody Decides to Become Irrelevant. Are You Becoming a Phone Booth?
Nobody Decides to Become Irrelevant. Are You Becoming a Phone Booth? Do you remember phone booths? I do. They were everywhere. On city sidewalks, inside diners, in hotel lobbies. You planned around them. You remembered where they were. If you needed to make a call and you were away from home, you found one. I…
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How to Build a Sustainable Career Competitive Advantage (Even After 40)
Developing a sustainable and realistic competitive and comparative advantage in your career is challenging. Everyone reading this understands how difficult and tiresome it is to upgrade your profile and skill set so that you remain attractive to your organization and clients day after day, week after week, and year after year. And it is not…
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The first MasterPlan Annual (MasterPlan 365) session with the new group
Yesterday, we had the first MasterPlan Annual (MasterPlan 365) session with the new group. The first session is always interesting. At the beginning of the call, we explained two things we wanted to focus on. The first question was what was your trigger moment to enroll in the MasterPlan program? The second question was whether clients…
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The MasterPlan Annual
The MasterPlan Annual 12-Month MasterPlan Design, Update & Implementation Program “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau Many high-achieving professionals reach a pivotal moment where they realize: Their impressive credentials do not equate to personal fulfillment or direction. They hold significant titles yet lack a strategic framework for the…
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Are you stuck in Roosevelt’s gray twilight?
Are You Stuck in Roosevelt’s … Gray Twilight? “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and…
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Succession: Greg Abel and 7 Lessons for Leaders
Buffett’s Biggest Leadership Decision, And What It Means for You Imagine the final moments of Warren Buffett’s May 3, 2025, 60th annual meeting. First of all, how many people have held 60 annual meetings for their company? Very few. So here we had the Oracle of Omaha, 94 years old, standing before about 40,000 shareholders…
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New Releases on StrategyTraining.com
New Releases on StrategyTraining.com This week’s updates focus on equipping you with the tools to tackle the problems others avoid and to deliver results that endure. We’ve released new Insider and Legacy episodes, along with another Strategy Control Room Advanced update, each built on battle-tested approaches used in high-stakes engagements. The goal is to elevate…
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Why Western Benchmarks Are Failing: Global Leadership Shifts Executives Must Understand
Are You Leading For The World We Have …Or The World We Had? As you know, within StrategyTraining.com, we’ve been tracking global trends for a long time. And you and I have always known the West wouldn’t hold a lead forever. But when you spend time on the ground in different parts of the world the shift…
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Rebuilding Your Career After Immigration: 5 Hard Resets Across 3 Continents
What It Means to Rebuild from Ground Zero, Again My first consulting engagement. Traveling internationally with the head of practice and another consultant, presenting to CEOs. Summer of 2007. This is my fifth restart. Not metaphorical. Not optional. Real-life ground zero. Again. I started over 4 times before. Across 3 continents. Across what it feels…