Curve Benders by David Nour

Are you feeling stuck? How are you utilizing your personal and professional networks to their fullest potential? 

Join David Nour as he explores how to become Unstuck by embracing and engaging the knowledge and experience of the people around you with Craig Lemasters. Craig is the author of Unstuck - How to Unlock & Activate the Wisdom of Others, and is Chairman at GCX. Listen on as Craig tells us about the power of listening and learning, building your network up, and not being scared of external help.

Did you watch the Super Bowl last sunday? How about the ads? Beyond their entertainment value, which ones did you think were really smart, delivered a well-thought out strategy, and were executed well?

What if we applied some of the lessons from Super Bowl marketing into your personal growth strategy? In this session, I'll share 14 I've captured - from the Worst Overall Marketing Strategy by Amazon Alexa, to the Best Integration of a Social Good by Google, let's look at some of the highlights.

Actual ads and the 14 points can be found in our private online community, NourGroup.com/Forum.

What do astronauts, Olympic champions and Nobel laureates do differently that allows them to achieve at such a high level?

Join David Nour  for the next Curve Benders Live as he welcomes Dr. Ruth Gotian, author of the new book, The Success Factor, which outlines the methodological approach that individuals aspiring to improve their performance can adopt to achieve success. High achievers share the same four attributes (intrinsic motivation, perseverance, strong foundation, constantly learning through informal means). The key to their success is that they do all four of these things in tandem.

Using these four shared attributes as a guide, The Success Factor helps you reach peak performance by applying the lessons of high achievers in your own life: identify your passion using a Passion Audit; learn how and where to find a mentor and how to build a mentoring team; develop your own community of practice; pursue your interests through informal learning; and manage your time and energy. The Success Factor comes with online resources that feature a downloadable Passion Audit worksheet, Mentoring Team worksheet, and Goal Audit worksheet. The book offers scripts for approaching potential mentors and a list of uncommon places to find a mentor, such as webinars, airports, and social media.

How's your pipeline? How well do you understand your audience, buying behaviors, and your ability to connect their needs with your solutions? Did you know the average organization utilizes more than 70 tools in an attempt to connect their marketing efforts to revenue, many of which are disjointed or are missing critical data? That's 70 of the 8,000+ unique techs addressing the needs of organizations from advertising & promotions, to content & experience, social & relationships, commerce & sales, data, and management.

What went well for you in 2021? What didn't quite click or materialize as you had hoped or expected? Through another year of the global pandemic, what lessons did you learn, what will you think about differently in 2022? Most importantly, which relationships enhanced, elevated or otherwise amplified your personal and professional growth? And which ones let you down, held you back, or you left neglected?

Use this simple, but powerful template to really think about the year that just passed. Equally valuable is the opportunity to think, feel, or do - in essence, lead differently in the New Year.

Join best-Selling author of Relationship Economics, Co-Create, and Curve Benders, David Nour on this episode of Curve Benders Live for a conversation on the incredible value of reflection. Visit NourGroup.com/Forum to continue the conversation and to access the exclusive content, resources, and events. 

Join David Nour on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast, featuring Erica Dhawan and her new book, Digital Body Language.

When leaders want to break team silos, drive exponential growth, and innovate through teamwork, they call Erica Dhawan. She is an internationally recognized leading authority, speaker, and advisor on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence and Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance.

It’s 2021, the world of business is increasingly digital and work practices have changed at a blistering rate. Erica shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Rated #1 on the Top Women Keynote Speakers of 2020 and featured as one of the management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business, Erica frequently appears in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wall Street Journal. Erica speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos to TEDx and for companies such as Coca-Cola, FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, SAP, and Cisco. She has degrees from Harvard University, MIT Sloan, and The Wharton School.

Show notes are in Nour Forum, our private online community.

Join David Nour on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast as he hosts Michael Watkins, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at IMD, and the author of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, which The Economist recognized as "the on-boarding bible." 

With more than 1,000,000 copies sold in English, and translations in 24 languages, The First 90 Days has become the classic reference for leaders in transition and a standard resource of leading change. In 2011, it was named one of the best 100 business books of all time 800-CEO-Read. Amazon declared it "one of the 100 best leadership & success books to read in your lifetime."

Prior to joining IMD, Dr. Watkins was an associate professor at the Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. While on the faculty of these institutions, he designed and taught world-class programs for high-potential leader development, corporate diplomacy, and strategic negotiation.

Dr. Watkins is the author or co-author of eleven books and numerous articles on leadership and negotiation. In the field of leadership, these include Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Managing Critical Career Transitions (HBS Press 2009), Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating (HBS Press 2006), and Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Avoid Them (HBS Press 2004). Predictable Surprises was named one of the best business books of 2004 by Strategy + Business and won the 2006 annual Kulp-Wright Award from The American Risk and Insurance Association. He also is the author or co-author of eight Harvard Business Review articles, including "It's All About Day One" (2013), "How Managers Become Leaders" (2012), "Picking the Right Transition Strategy" (2009), "The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas" (2007) and "The Successor's Dilemma" (2000).

In addition, Dr. Watkins has written extensively on business-government relations, international security, and negotiation, most recently co-authoring Case Studies in U.S. Trade Negotiation, Volumes 1 and 2 and Winning the Influence Game: What Every Business Leaders Should Know About Government. His books on negotiation - Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts and Breakthrough Business Negotiation: A Toolbox for Managers, won the CPR Institute's prize for best books in the field of negotiation in 2001 and 2003.

Dr. Watkins is the co-founder of Genesis Advisers, a transition acceleration consultancy.

Originally from Canada, Dr. Watkins received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, did graduate work in law and business at the University of Western Ontario, and completed his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences at Harvard University.

Join David Nour on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast as he hosts Harry Kraemer, Jr., an executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago, Illinois, and a Clinical Professor of Leadership at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he was named the 2008 Kellogg School Professor of the Year. 

Harry is the author of three bestselling leadership books: From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership, Becoming The Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership. and Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Baxter International Inc., a $12 billion global healthcare company. He became Baxter's chief executive officer in January 1999 and assumed the additional responsibility of chairman of Baxter's board of directors in January 2000.

Harry joined Baxter in 1982 as director of corporate development. His twenty-three-year career at Baxter included senior positions in both domestic and international operations. In 1993, he was named senior vice president and chief financial officer, responsible for financial operations, business development, global communications, and European operations. Over the next several years, he assumed additional responsibility for Baxter's Renal and Medication Delivery businesses. He was elected to Baxter's board of directors in 1995 and was named president of Baxter International Inc. in 1997.

Before joining Baxter, Mr. Kraemer worked for Bank of America in corporate banking and for Northwest Industries in planning and business development.

Mr. Kraemer is active in business, education, and civic affairs. He serves on the board of directors of Leidos Corporation, Dentsply Sirona, Option Care Health, Performance Health, and Alcami, and on the board of trustees of Northwestern University, The Conference Board, NorthShore University Healthsystem and the Archdiocese of Chicago Finance Committee and School Board.

He is a member of the Dean's Global Advisory Board of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is a member of the Council of CEOs, the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Economics Club of Chicago. He is a past member of the Business Roundtable, the Business Council, and the Healthcare Leadership Council.

Mr. Kraemer graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence University of Wisconsin in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics. He received an MBA degree in finance and accounting from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in 1979 and is a certified public accountant. For his outstanding leadership and service, he received the 1996 Schaffner Award from the Kellogg School of Management. Harry enjoys jogging, tennis, skiing, and reading, especially world civilization. Harry, his wife Julie, and their five children live in Wilmette, Illinois. More info on Harry at www.harrykraemer.org.

Join David Nour on this episode of the Curve Benders podcast as he hosts Thinkers50 Radar 2021 colleague, Dr. Mandeep Rai to discuss values-based alignment. Mandeep is a global authority on values, working with companies, institutions, and individuals around the world. She has traveled to more than 150 countries and reported as a journalist for the BBC World Service and Reuters, amongst others.

Join Nour today at Noon ET for a Livestream with Mandeep. Show notes and further discussions in the Nour Forum. Fabulous guests joining us in the next several episodes including Harry Kraemer, Michael Watkins, Erica Dhawan, and Geoff Parker, so we hope you'll subscribe wherever you consume podcasts.

Join David Nour for this episode of the Curve Benders Podcast, as he hosts the founders of Thinkers50, Stuart Crainer, and Des Dearlove.

Don't forget, Stuart and Des will be Nour's guests on LinkedIn LIVE today at Noon ET. We also turn the show notes from these episodes into more in-depth articles in our private online community, Nour Forum. Several brilliant guests coming up, so hope you'll subscribe to Curve Benders, wherever you consume podcasts.