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Business Acumen
Why Every Employee Needs Business Acumen Click to view Why Every Employee Needs Business Acumen
Business acumen is the understanding of what drives a business’s performance. It combines knowledge of how a business makes money; how different parts of an organization work together to drive performance; and awareness of its markets, competitors, and customers. Business acumen...
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Business Simulation
Learning to Lead Together: Cohort-Based Simulations Click to view Learning to Lead Together: Cohort-Based Simulations
Every time a program wraps, we look forward to the written comments. Some participants write a sentence. One recently (and cheerfully) apologized for the length of their answers ("See my book above"). We read every chapter.
Here are two recent favorites:
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Leadership
The Human Side of Leadership: 5 Truths from 25 Years Click to view The Human Side of Leadership: 5 Truths from 25 Years
We started a leadership development company 25 years ago with a core belief: Great leaders bring both business acumen and human empathy to their task.
Leaders need to make courageous, creative business decisions and nurture and empower their teams and organizations to bring...
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How to Develop an Enterprise Mindset: 5 Behaviors Every Leader NeedsHow to Develop an Enterprise Mindset: 5 Behaviors Every Leader Needs
A core leadership challenge has emerged across multiple clients this year: how to move leaders from optimizing for...
Leslie Becknell Marx
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How to Lead With Steadiness When Everything Feels UncertainHow to Lead With Steadiness When Everything Feels Uncertain
Head-spinning change, stomach-wrenching anxiety, and heart-aching grief are all too common experiences in our work and...
Leslie Becknell Marx
Mar 10, 2026
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Rethinking the "Toxic Boss" LabelRethinking the "Toxic Boss" Label
“Toxic boss” is a label that gets thrown around more and more frequently, sometimes casually, sometimes jokingly, and...
Leslie Becknell Marx
May 20, 2025
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The ABCs of Leadership Development: Empowering Your Team to ThriveThe ABCs of Leadership Development: Empowering Your Team to Thrive
As a leader, your role includes developing the people who work for you, but it doesn’t stop there. You also have...
Leslie Becknell Marx
Nov 19, 2024
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Spring Is in the Air: Lighten Up Your Leadership JourneySpring Is in the Air: Lighten Up Your Leadership Journey
Note: If you like this post, explore the rest of our Season of Leadership series, which includes posts on winter, summer
Leslie Becknell Marx
Apr 4, 2024
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Evaluate Your Leadership: Do They Trust You With the Truth?Evaluate Your Leadership: Do They Trust You With the Truth?
How can you know that, as a leader, you are hearing the full story from your people? After all, the way you lead...
Leslie Becknell Marx
Oct 25, 2022
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Authentic Leadership: How Do You Get There?Authentic Leadership: How Do You Get There?
Authentic leadership is an invitation to be our true best selves, not some idealized version of a leader. And it is no...
Leslie Becknell Marx
May 10, 2022
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Whoops!: Our Unplanned Social Experiment in Gender BiasesWhoops!: Our Unplanned Social Experiment in Gender Biases
A riddle, presented to Archie Bunker in the television show All in the Family, left me befuddled as a child in the...
Leslie Becknell Marx
Oct 5, 2021
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