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How Purpose Guides You Through the Tough Decisions
- November 5, 2025
- Category: Leadership and People
In another post, I mentioned that a leader’s greatest power is in his or her ability to set a vision that people understand and want to follow. You can’t do that without purpose. I’ve coached many CEOs of mid-market companies, both young and seasoned executives, who seek my advice regarding tough decisions – revamping their
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The Importance of Purpose – for Companies and Individuals
- November 2, 2025
- Category: Leadership and People
I once had the opportunity to speak with Jeremy Park on the LPBC Radio Show. Jeremy also spoke with Lavetra Stewart of Time for a Change and Charlotte Hoppers of Grace House of Memphis. Jeremy and I had a great talk and spoke for almost 20 minutes. I won’t rehash everything here, but I did want
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4 Steps to Prevent Hiring Mistakes
- November 1, 2025
- Category: Leadership and People
Have you ever wondered about how things would have turned out if you had hired that other candidate? You know, the one who finished second to that super-polished person who sounded great in the interviews … but never performed as expected? Hiring mistakes cause a lot of stress. And the cost of poor hires
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The Difference in the Way People Talk About Failure
- October 31, 2025
- Category: Leadership and People
Below is my 3-minute introduction at the October LPBC meeting, which addresses 2 different types of failure. Here’s the quick summary. There are 2 ways that people classify failure: #1 – “I am a failure.” #2 – “I have failed three times.” There’s a significant difference between the two. One implies a failure of commission
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Communication That Connects
- August 23, 2025
- Category: Leadership and People
To Truly Connect with Your Audience, Communicate Using the Lens of Your Listener In order for you to reach whatever goal or vision you have, for either your career or your life, you absolutely must be able to connect with people. No one has ever achieved anything of significance completely alone. Some connect with people
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Building Healthy Teams: Jason Baker’s Insights on Edmundson Berry Group’s Impact
- April 4, 2024
- Category: Leadership and People
“This is knowledge and wisdom that I wish I would have had 15 years ago.” Edmundson Berry Group exists to transform leaders and build the value of their business. Walking alongside leaders on the path of their leadership journey is our purpose. We had the privilege to interview Jason Baker, Executive Director for Champions for
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Edmundson Group Announces New Partner and Name Change to Edmundson Berry Group
- March 28, 2024
- Category: Leadership and People, News, Announcements
After 23 years of providing business advisory services to the mid-market, with a global reach in six countries and the U.S., Edmundson Group proudly announces another significant evolution. The mid-market business advisory firm, founded by Ken Edmundson and recognized for its innovative solutions and esteemed clientele, is embracing another change to address its future growth
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Slowing Down to Speed Up
- May 10, 2022
- Category: Leadership and People
Feeling “stuck” is a fairly common experience in the life of a leader, and for a good reason. The number of decisions, opportunities, priorities, risks, and relationships to be managed at any given time can be overwhelming. This reality can lead many of us toward a pattern of over-functioning to catch up or get ahead.
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The Peter Principle Still Applies
- April 18, 2022
- Category: Leadership and People
Things that grow change; as they change, what they need to keep growing changes. This fact is just as true for companies and those who lead them as it is for the natural world. It is also true that we don’t always know what we need because, as has been said, “we don’t know what
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Technological Innovation and the Changes Ahead
- May 11, 2021
- Category: Leadership and People, News
So many of us talk about the change we are feeling but can’t see. Hear Shad Berry and Jim Sagar discuss how technological advances are impacting all of us. Since some of the concepts are new to many of us; the takeaways are the following: We’re in the middle of a massive transition of global
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