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Leadership Personal Effectiveness

Today's Challenge: Personal Focus (Part 1)

This is the next installment in the series in which I attempt to answer a question from a leader somewhere in the world. Today, I want to share a few thoughts on the single most requested topic I’ve received thus far. Today’s Challenge: Personal Focus.

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Organizational Effectiveness Strategic Planning

You Get No Credit for Doing the Wrong Things Well

I’m thankful to say that we’ve been able to assemble a great team at the Chick-fil-A home office. Like many of you, we’ve selected men and women of integrity with a strong work ethic, who also do amazing work. The challenge, especially if you have a team of superstars, is not that they’ll do bad work – it’s that they’ll do the wrong work extremely well!

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Engagement Vision

7 Ways to Help People Catch Your Vision

One of the most critical parts of our role as leaders is helping people see the future as we see it. This is an ever-present challenge. One of the reasons this task is so formidable is that people are different – what resonates with one person may not connect at all with someone else.