Perspective

By Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams Holly: Recently, my family and I were driving to dinner when we came across a car accident that had just occurred. It was clear the people involved needed [...]

Holly: There’s a word that comes up often in my work with clients and that is tired. We are all feeling tired right now. A mistaken assumption about grit is that you must plow through exhaustion, [...]

May 2021 By Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams In our second round of Strategic Grit blog posts, we are focusing on real-life stories, sharing examples of real people who use Strategic Grit to [...]

Check out a couple of favorites from my February book stack. 📚 Only have time for 1 or 2? Rich Diviney’s The Attributes and Kevin Oakes’ Culture Renovation are books I highly recommend. 👍 [...]

  January 2021 favorites!

The high school fall football season just wrapped up in Iowa, and my son’s team made it to the semi-finals, losing to the team that ended up winning the state championship. The team and [...]

Hello! We’re Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams, two consultants from the Midwest who use strategy and grit to help individuals, teams, and organizations create a clear vision of the success [...]

3 Ways to Prevent Uploading Responsibility You’ve probably heard the saying “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” And managers I know tell me that employees who are too quick to escalate [...]

Although released in 2018, I thought a book billed as the “antidote to chaos” would be prefect for my Summer 2020 reading list. The author, Jordan B. Peterson, wrote the book to expand on his [...]

My friend Lindsay asks really good questions, the kind that kick-off long, in-depth conversations that sometimes actually hurt. And yet, I love having them. Recently, Lindsay asked me about a low [...]