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Shayne Fitz-Coy contributed to Fast Company’s expert panel, “20 tips to help first-time brand leaders shine in media interviews.” LEAD WITH HONEST LESSONS FROM FAILURE. Prepare to talk about your worst mistakes, not your best achievements. When I started giving interviews, I told success stories. Now, I curate my failures: the $50K feature nobody used,…

Shayne Fitz-Coy contributed to Forbes’s expert panel, “How Emerging Market Real Estate Investors Can Assess And Mitigate Risk.” Do A “Coffee Shop Test” While others obsess over market data, I prefer the “coffee shop test.” Spend a few days in an area to observe traffic patterns, routines, commutes and development momentum. Quantitative analysis can be…

Shayne Fitz-Coy contributed to Fast Company’s expert panel, “17 ways global team leaders can balance consistency and regional autonomy.” IDENTIFY WHAT MATTERS MOST IN EACH COUNTRY. As they teach in the Stanford MBA program, “Different countries are different.” Identify the five to seven things that matter, and let it rip on the rest. The customer…

Shayne Fitz-Coy contributed to Fast Company’s expert panel, “20 strategies to address today’s complex business challenges.” CREATE A PROBLEM BOARD. Kill the suggestion box and build a “problem board” instead. At our company, we don’t reward answers, we reward people for spotting unknowns and naming problems publicly. The biggest creativity killer isn’t a lack of…

Shayne Fitz-Coy contributed to Fast Company’s expert panel, “20 key habits highly productive managers swear by.” CHECK EMAIL AFTER FINISHING A MORE CONSEQUENTIAL TASK. Cultivate your strategic ignorance. Each day, I don’t check email until I’ve completed my most consequential task. This way, I’m working on important tasks that merit executive attention instead of the…

Shayne Fitz-Coy contributed to Forbes’s expert panel, “19 Business Experts Share Failed Risks And Lessons Learned.” Adapt Meetings To Fit Business Needs We cut all internal meetings for a quarter, thinking it would boost efficiency. Instead, performance declined due to a combination of poor collaboration and lower morale from disconnected employees. We learned it’s not…