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The Power of Leadership
Brandon Pipkin Brandon Pipkin

The Power of Leadership

In 2003, I was hired by Michael Kuehn.

There’s a reason that statement stands on its own. It changed my life.

He hired me to do business development at a boutique leadership development firm in Denver, CO.

I learned A LOT about leadership: making managers into leaders, motivation, vision, human potential, hiring, incentives, etc.

And I also learned what NOT to do as a leader.

Unfortunately, most of those what-not-to-do lessons came from within our own organization (the irony, right, at a leadership development firm?).

The company was going through a transition phase. There was a period where we didn’t have a concrete offering other than an etherial concept, which I wasn’t comfortable taking to my clients.

When I didn’t sell this vaporware (because I’m more interested in

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Book Review: “How to Talk so CEOs Listen”

Book Review: “How to Talk so CEOs Listen”

Book Review: "How to Talk so CEOs Listen"

If you sell to or consult with executives (VPs, C-suite), read this book - seriously.

Ammar shares brilliant, hard-won wisdom from his experience as a young project manager and now a consulting titan about how to connect with executives in a way that gets the job done the right way.

If you're not speaking their language, focusing on what's important to them (results), you're going nowhere fast, except out the door.

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