I’m a recovering business-speak-jargon-junky on a lifelong quest to talk less, listen more and make more impactful statements… and some days I even succeed. Regardless of my personal journey, office jargon is a nonstop verbal barrage that assaults and overwhelms...
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“And now, beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories.” – President Abraham Lincoln, January 26, 1863 Letter to Gen. Joseph Hooker – “Rashness” arrives in many forms with none...
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Last month our Vistage group conducted a staff “ride along” at the Gettysburg Battlefield with Colonel Rick “Lunchbox” Sheffe, USAF, of the U.S. Army War College. When we paused atop Little Roundtop, I asked Colonel Sheffe what a modern leader...
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