May 28, 2020 | Corporate Strategy, Leadership & Strategy
Bees have two major roles: “in-house” jobs and “foraging” jobs “In-house” jobs are extensive. They include nursing, tending to the queen bee needs, hive cleaning, bee grooming, undertaker, honeycomb building, and hive maintenance. In terms of “foraging”, they must... 
May 7, 2020 | Leadership & Strategy
As we prepare to begin phasing back into work, I’ve asked myself what I might focus on if I was planning to return to a new normal in my own company. I see an opportunity for a restart in many regards. This unexpected time out, whether we like it or not, provides us... 
May 6, 2020 | Leadership & Strategy
Chicago, IL – 05/06/2020 – Exactus Advisors LLP (Exactus), a nationally recognized advisory firm, is proud to announce the launch of our Leadership and Strategy practice, led by Jimmy F. Blackmon. Focused on addressing the complex leadership and strategy... 
Apr 13, 2020 | Leadership & Strategy
Dealing with crisis is what the military is designed to do. Based on experience, we develop drills for the most common crisis events – scripts that ensured we did not overlook critical steps in the heat of the moment. Still, extreme times call for extreme actions. In... 
Apr 13, 2020 | Leadership & Strategy
I reported to flight school in the fall of 1991. From the day I arrived, helicopters dotted the skies over lower Alabama day and night. Literally, you could not sling a dead cat without hitting three aviators walking down any street in Enterprise, Alabama. I’ve... 
Apr 13, 2020 | Leadership & Strategy
Grace is one of those elusive, mysterious words that can be difficult to fully understand. The English language is challenging due to hominims – words with the same spelling but different meanings – but it’s not that grace has entirely different meanings, it’s that it...