Contribution Is King

An essential responsibility of leadership is seeing potential in others that they may not yet see in themselves—and then helping bring it forward. That’s the difference between observation and contribution. It’s one thing to recognize talent. It’s another to activate it. Recently, I was coaching a high-potential Vice President and posed a simple question: “What’s […]

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