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Developing Strategic Thinkers on Your Team: Six Behaviors to Stop

Developing strategic thinkers on your team isn't about adding new processes—it's about stopping behaviors that inhibit strategic thinking. Many leaders unknowingly create cultures that value compliance over strategic thinking through habits like giving quick answers, solving problems alone, and moving faster than people's understanding. By identifying and stopping these six counterproductive behaviors, leaders can create an environment where strategic thinking flourishes and team members grow into capable decision-makers.

Path for Growth Team
November 18, 2024
Breaking Free from Survival Mode: 7 Actions for Strategic Business Thinking

Your business survives when you work in it (tactical work like sales and meetings), but truly grows when you work on it (strategic thinking). To shift from tactical to strategic thinking, focus on seven key actions: get clear on desired outcomes, understand your resources, solve root causes, expand your options, listen to different perspectives, question your impulses, and treat assumptions as assumptions. The key is starting small - pick one area of your business and apply these principles systematically rather than trying to transform everything at once.

Path for Growth Team
November 12, 2024
8 Principles of Strategic Thinking

Strategic thinking isn't about annual checklists; it's a mindset that transforms how you lead. Dive into eight actionable principles that will help you work on your business, involve your team, and make a lasting impact. They're tools for reshaping your leadership journey.

Path for Growth Team
November 5, 2024
5 Indicators of a Healthy Business

The "5 Indicators of a Healthy Business" highlights the key elements that ensure a business thrives beyond simple revenue growth: team engagement, profitability, consistency of language, operational excellence, and the leader's well-being. It emphasizes how engaged teams, disciplined financial management, a shared cultural language, efficient systems, and a healthy leader create a sustainable foundation for success. By focusing on these areas, businesses can achieve long-term impact and resilience.

Alex Judd
October 29, 2024
5 Actions of Healthy High Achievers

Becoming a healthy high achiever requires mastering five key actions: ignoring distracting opportunities, stewarding current responsibilities, amplifying what works, developing others' potential, and giving generously without expecting returns. While many excel at reaching goals, they often struggle to find meaning in their accomplishments, making it crucial to balance achievement with personal fulfillment. True leadership isn't about individual success but rather about helping others succeed while maintaining sustainable practices that benefit both yourself and those around you. Copy

Path for Growth Team
October 22, 2024
7 Practical Conclusions from “Decision Making and the Will of God"

Despite extensive knowledge about effective decision-making, Alex found himself paralyzed when facing pivotal life choices that intersected with his faith and deeply held convictions. By embracing insights from Dr. Garry Friesen's book "Decision Making and the Will of God," he discovered a transformative framework that harmonizes faith with practical decision-making. This model, along with seven practical conclusions derived from it, empowered him to make wise decisions aligned with his beliefs, leading to profound personal and professional growth.

Path for Growth Team
October 15, 2024
Breaking Through the Influence Ceiling: Embracing Healthy Executive Presence - Pt. 2

To elevate executive presence, leaders should focus on authenticity and long-term influence by embodying core virtues like principles, humility, pace, and priority. Living by clear principles, embracing humility, maintaining a sustainable pace, and prioritizing effectively fosters leadership that is grounded, intentional, and impactful. By consistently practicing these virtues, leaders inspire trust, drive meaningful change, and create a culture of excellence.

Path for Growth Team
October 1, 2024
Breaking Through the Influence Ceiling: Embracing Healthy Executive Presence-Pt. 1

To break through the influence ceiling, leaders must evolve their approach by cultivating healthy executive presence, which is grounded in authenticity, not superficial power. Key virtues include preparation, inner peace, availability, and a people-centric focus. These qualities foster trust and inspire lasting influence. Leaders should embrace self-awareness and intentionality to grow their leadership capacity and continue making an impact.

Path for Growth Team
September 27, 2024
How to Cut Costs & Create Profit — 3 Steps for Reducing Non-Value

What is value? What is non-value? What does the customer ACTUALLY pay for? We answer these questions and more in this blog.

Zack Estes
January 19, 2023
How to Operationalize Your Business

When it comes to succeeding in any business, operationalization is the name of the game. To operationalize something is to translate abstract concepts into measurable, accessible, repeatable, and iterative processes that help you grow your business.

Alex Judd
January 10, 2023
7 Lessons from the Orthodox Jewish Community

Learn from the inspiring leaders of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York and discover the importance of rest, generosity, connection, differences, humility, community and ritual in their way of life

Alex Judd
May 31, 2022
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