The Compass Alliance

07 Jul Paying it Forward?

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The lessons of 2020 will be golden for some companies; misery for others. The very best are pausing to reflect on just what they've learned as regards their market(s), their customer(s); their competition; and perhaps most important their company. After Action Reviews are built to generate one...

06 Jul And Those Who Don’t Know The Difference Won’t MAKE A Difference

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A great many "would be" leaders are about to go extinct. Like a forest fire, the flames of COVID will prune and eliminate the underbrush of pretenders - leaving only the substantive behind. But the collateral damage inflicted on followers who believed - until it was too...

16 Mar Why This Virus WON’T Win

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We have decisions to make today. While a seeping fear roils our world with the spread of the corona virus – our media outlets bombard with the latest numbers – and the financial markets continue to slide – there is a tendency for all of us...

09 Mar Transformative Leaders and The Power of WHO

Posted at 16:25h in Career, Communication, Leadership, Learning, People, Personal Accountability, Perspective, Process by Tim Cole 0 Comments

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Theodore Geisel was ready to give up on his dream. Twenty-seven publishers couldn’t be wrong. “Your fanciful little books have no commercial value.” But it was a dream that would not die easily. Perhaps that’s why when he ran into an old college buddy that day on the street...

31 Jan Miles To Go

Posted at 03:55h in Career, Communication, Leadership, Learning, People, Personal Accountability, Perspective, Uncategorized by Tim Cole 0 Comments

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“We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” -John Dewey 2020 is underway. Deadlines – meetings – reports – emails – the latest crisis. That holiday break back in December – does it seem like a distant memory yet? For many of us – YES! The...

08 Aug Leadership Lessons That Transcend the Ballpark

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It’s been 31 years since the movie Bull Durham premiered. Arguably one of the best sports/romantic comedies of all time I would argue – but then again I am a sucker for a “feel good” flick – and the story of Crash Davis, the perennial...

29 May Simple Truths

Posted at 16:13h in Career, Communication, Leadership, Learning, People, Personal Accountability, Perspective, podcasts, Process by Tim Cole 0 Comments

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In 1799 a French soldier by the name of Pierre-Francois Bouchard stumbled on a building stone near the Nile River that forever changed human history. Bouchard was likely more concerned with the Napoleonic campaign with the British than he was some old rock with strange...

20 May Crisis Leadership – What Now?

Posted at 17:09h in Career, Communication, Leadership, Learning, People, Personal Accountability, Perspective, Process by Tim Cole 0 Comments

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Last month a guy named James Adducci laid down an $85,000 bet in Vegas that Tiger Woods would win the Masters. He pocketed a cool 1.19 million on his bold gamble. Talk about hutzpah! I’m not too skilled at the fine art of gambling. I’ve always sort of...

11 May Career Advice I Learned the HARD Way

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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to.” -Frodo quoting Bilbo, The Fellowship of the Ring I heard...

10 May Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock

Posted at 18:39h in Career, Communication, Leadership, Learning, People, Personal Accountability, Perspective, podcasts, Process by Tim Cole 0 Comments

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I subscribe to The 1440 Principle. Its tenets are pretty simple. All of us have three unique resources at our disposal: Our time Out talent Our passion Two of the resources are renewable. One isn’t – and that’s our time. I’ll get 1,440 minutes today....