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Category: Career

  • Executive Coaching

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    Kris Safarova
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    Executive Coaching We offer powerful executive coaching programs (combination of very small group with time guaranteed for each client and 1:1). You can view details about each program in top navigation drop down menu, under “MENTORING” or following links below. Consulting Sales Rainmaker – https://www.firmsconsulting.com/consulting-sales-program/ The MasterPlan – https://www.firmsconsulting.com/masterplan-coaching-program/ Speak Without Limits – https://www.firmsconsulting.com/executive-presence/ However, some clients come…

  • What Makes a Leader

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    In this post let’s focus on what makes a leader. Let’s assume you are a member (Insider or Legacy) of StrategyTraining.com and using the programs to progress in your career. Which of the following outcomes do you hope to achieve as an Insider or Legacy member, and would you be satisfied if you achieved them?…

  • Customer Care as a Sustainable Competitive Advantage

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    Customer Care as a Sustainable Competitive Advantage In today’s post I was to talk about how customer care, client care, can be source of a sustainable competitive advantage. And I am not only talking here about customer care or client care department that answers customers emails or speaks to customers on the phone. I am…

  • 19 Ways for Developing Strategy Insights

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    Kris Safarova
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    19 Ways for Developing Strategy Insights One of my favorite words is the Japanese word Satori, translated as “comprehension; understanding” or “a flash of insight.” Insights allow us to see what others—or most others—were not able to see or what they ignored. Insights allow us to see what we ourselves have not seen before, or have not understood the importance of…

  • Jeff Bezos Question Worth Asking

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    Kris Safarova
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    Jeff Bezos Question Worth Asking Jeff Bezos mentioned he often received this question: “What’s going to change in the next 10 years?” Jeff Bezos, however, said that the more important question is this: “What’s NOT going to change in the next 10 years?” I thought about this as it relates to building a career in…

  • Who is going to be the making of YOU

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    Kris Safarova
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    Who is going to be the making of YOU I came across this story about Thomas Edison today: Edison was sent home from school with a letter for his mom. He asked his mother, “What does the letter say?” She said, “It says, your son is incredibly intelligent beyond our capabilities of teaching him. Our recommendation…

  • Understanding the Risk in a Business Strategy

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    Kris Safarova
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    Understanding the Risk in a Business Strategy A business strategy tries to solve a set of problems to increase returns while minimizing risk. The return side is well covered with numerous tools, analytics, and frameworks to more or less accurately estimate free cash flow, economic profit, NOPAT, enterprise value, EBITDA, net income, ROIC, and any…

  • The Desire To Feel Better About Oneself

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    Kris Safarova
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    There is a very basic human need:  The desire to feel better about oneself. Everybody has this need. And there are four ways in which people act on this need. #1 is focusing on achieving, success, accomplishing difficult goals, and breaking out of your orbit. #2 is charity and sacrifice. We feel better when we…

  • Success Requires Clarity

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    Warren Buffet remembers speaking to a woman who had survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz was a complex of over forty concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II’s Holocaust.  He asked this woman, “How do you define friendship?” She said her test was: “Would they hide me?”…