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Ability to Execute

If you’re familiar with Gartner’s Magic Quadrants, you’ll recognize Ability to Execute.  “Ability to Execute” is a powerful concept.   Here is a quick mental model to picture Ability to Execute: Ability to Execute is a quick way to help prioritize ideas worth acting on.   After all, what good is a bunch of ideas you can’t …

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Individuals at Their Best

High-Performance Teams are Individuals at Their Best

  “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.” — Patrick Lencioni To create high-performance teams, you don’t need the best people in the world.  But you do need people at their best. To bring out their best, you …

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10 Things Great Managers Do

“People don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad managers.” – Marcus Buckingham What do great managers do?   To put it simply, they bring out your best.   Whether it’s fire you up or get on your path or help you overcome your personal challenges, they help you flourish. Great managers grow great leaders. Aside from all …

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Getting Ahead in Your Career

Mid-year is always a hot time.  It’s a time to recap the impact and check the scoreboard.  For some, it’s a time to shine.  For others, it’s a wake up call.  And for others, it’s Phoenix time. I think between the changing economy, the rapid pace of change, and ultra-competition, figuring out how to rise …

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The Art of Extreme Productivity

One of my mentees asked me to write about how to free yourself up in terms of more time, while getting more things done, and making more impact. I welcomed her challenge to write about the art of “extreme productivity” and how to achieve better, faster, more meaningful results, in less time. Getting fast and …

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I am J.D. Meier. I help you unleash your greatest impact. Former head coach for Satya Nadella's innovation team. 25 years of Microsoft. Learn more...

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