Wednesday Wisdom

By Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams “A lack of grit can come from having less coherent goal structures.” Author Angela Duckworth talks a lot about grit, and the lack of it, in her book Grit: [...]

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 [...]

Check out this fun conversation with Christoph Trappe from The Business Storytelling Show. (it’s less than 30 minutes!) [...]

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, [...]

By Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams Holly: “Everyone has a story.” This was an observation a dear friend of mine made several years ago, and it helped me realize that we all have a seed of [...]

By Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams Jennifer: I’ve been thinking a lot about the complex problems we citizens of the world face today, the ones that have no easy, obvious solution. We read [...]

October 2021 In our third round of blog posts, we look at the role of emotions in Strategic Grit, provide tips and tricks for overcoming the challenges that come with them, and more. We want to [...]

Are you starting to think about your summer reading? 📚☀️ Here are a couple of recommendations: 🌟The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You’re Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, [...]

Strategic Grit was born of the lessons (sometimes painful, sometimes joyful) that we learned in 2020, a unique year in many ways. Some of these lessons we learned on our own, through our research [...]

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. 👍 [...]