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Are You Hungry to Beat the Competition?

How to use First Principles Leadership to “eat strategy for breakfast” and create a bespoke culture to give you a winning edge.
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
Stay Vigilant to Fend Off Threats to Your Culture

Stay Vigilant to Fend Off Threats to Your Culture

First Principles Leadership: Create a bespoke culture for your organization to give it an edge over the competition, part 5 of 5.
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
Make Your Winning Culture One of a Kind

Make Your Winning Culture One of a Kind

First Principles Leadership: Create a bespoke culture for your organization to give it an edge over the competition, part 2 of 5.
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
This Journaling Series Will Change Your Life

This Journaling Series Will Change Your Life

Improve your mental health and become more effective through reflective writing
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
Focus on the Process, Not the Outcome

Focus on the Process, Not the Outcome

My first post in a series on my biggest leadership regrets.
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
Avoid These Leadership Traps No One’s Talking About

Avoid These Leadership Traps No One’s Talking About

First Principles Friday: Building off my most popular post- 5 more leadership mistakes to avoid
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
First Principles Friday: Leaders, You’re Writing Your Process Documents All Wrong

First Principles Friday: Leaders, You’re Writing Your Process Documents All Wrong

Operating a $420 million submarine showed me why you need specificity to hold yourself accountable to clear standards and improve…
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
Read This if You Think Process Documentation is Futile

Read This if You Think Process Documentation is Futile

Leading teams in financial services showed me why it’s important to get process documentation right- here’s the philosophy I used to do…
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
First Principles Friday: Stay Supple with These Leadership “Stretches”

First Principles Friday: Stay Supple with These Leadership “Stretches”

How to develop supple leadership with this 11-point program and enable high octane team performance
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
These Signs are Difficult to See, But There if You Look

These Signs are Difficult to See, But There if You Look

It can be easy to feel defeated, but signs of hope and progress are all around us.
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
First Principles Friday: What Do Vulnerable Leaders Actually Do?

First Principles Friday: What Do Vulnerable Leaders Actually Do?

Your checklist for creating a more loyal, productive, and thriving team
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
How to Recover from Workplace Failures in 7 Steps

How to Recover from Workplace Failures in 7 Steps

Take the time to reflect on the mistakes of your past to make big changes for the future
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
First Principles Friday: How to Transform Insecurities Into Strengths

First Principles Friday: How to Transform Insecurities Into Strengths

Leverage the power of opening up to make your team more effective
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
Strategy Tuesday: How to Use Surrender to Your Advantage

Strategy Tuesday: How to Use Surrender to Your Advantage

Use the surrender strategy to take one initial step backward, but leaps forward in the long run
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
First Principles Friday: Great Leaders Exhibit Unity of Command

First Principles Friday: Great Leaders Exhibit Unity of Command

How to employ effective command and control in your team to get more done
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
Strategy Tuesday: The Power of Holding Back

Strategy Tuesday: The Power of Holding Back

How to play defense versus offense to best position yourself for workplace success
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Jared R Chaffee, CFA
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