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Are You Ready for 2024?

Do we really know what awaits us all in 2024? Forecasting the future is a popular pastime, but boy is It hard to get these guesses right. Sure, we know some things. We observe some things. We’ve seen this pattern before.  This is important information.  But we are fallible humans. We fool ourselves about what

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Entrepreneurs, Freedom, and Growth

Are you an entrepreneur? I am. I love freedom. Don’t you? That’s why we entrepreneurs start our own thing. We want to chart our own course. We want to do it our way– a better way. We want…freedom. Why else would we go to all this trouble and introduce risk to our lives? So we start

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Adding a Twist of STOOPID to SMART Goals

As the late John F. Kennedy once said, “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” New years bring with them the possibilities of improvements, changes and successes which take time, energy and focus to attain.  As a fractional HR services and organizational behavior management consultancy, Performentor frequently works with businesses on performance related projects

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What is People Science Anyway?

People science. It’s all over my LinkedIn page, my website, and other Performentor.biz collateral. I want to talk about what I mean by this phrase and why it’s important to me and how I do my work. And why it’s important for you too.

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The Difference Between Interesting and Important

Hello CEOs, Presidents, and CXOs.  Hello people in positions of authority to make far-reaching decisions.  Now think of something interesting related to your business.  You have it in your mind now?  See it?  See how you’d like to solve it?  OK.  Now, is that thing important?  Of course it is! Maybe it is.  Is it?

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Innovate Like a Champ and Not a Chump

There still exist products that are (mostly) the same as they’ve always been that are still valued and still purchased.  They’re almost all commodities with low margins or offerings in stagnant markets, but they exist and many billions are made selling them. That’s a lot of money to spread around, so maybe innovation doesn’t matter

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Leader-Under-Pressure. What to do?

CEOs and founders, I’m talking to you.  Think about your leadership team. These are people that went through the gauntlet with you through growth, change, and general travails.  You’ve committed to them, you’ve invested in them and they’ve committed to and invested in the business.  The bonds are deep because you’ve waded across the Rubicon

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