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What Happens When You Build a Business on Partner Strengths Only and Not Character?
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We often choose business partners for the strengths they bring, but strength tells us what someone can contribute while pressure reveals character. As the stakes rise, the more important question may be whether we have paid as much attention to who someone becomes under pressure as we…
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Chaos Is Bad For Business
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: Chaos consumes the capacity a business needs to think, improve and grow. It also damages the trust, reciprocity and reliability—the guanxi—through which valuable business relationships are sustained. Chaos is sometimes mistaken for good energy. Every thing and everyone is moving, messages are flying, decisions are being made…
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Are you in the Midst of a Reinvention?
I hope that your answer to this is yes because if you aren’t you should be! Today’s business world calls for continuous improvement. I used to think that once you fix everything you’ll be fine and it will be easy sailing from there on in. Are you guilty of this fantasy as well or even…

