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Articles by Dr. Brad McRae
Dr. Brad McRae Director, Atlantic Leadership Development Institute (Halifax, NS & Kingston, Jamaica) Brad is a keynote presenter, consultant, and best-selling author and was trained in negotiating skills at the Project on Negotiation at Harvard University and leadership at the Harvard Business School's Leadership Best Practices Program. Brad has earned his CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation and gives over 100 presentations across Canada and in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Africa, England and the Caribbean. He is the author eight books including: How to Write A Thesis and Keep Your Sanity; Practical Time Management; Negotiating and Influencing Skill; The Seven Strategies of Master Negotiators; The Seven Strategies of Master Presenters, and From our Grandmother's Lap: Lessons for a Lifetime. His most recent book is, The Seven Strategies of Master Leaders. Brad is also the editor of The Atlantic Leadership Development Institute Newsletter. Lastly, Brad is a recognized philanthropist in Canada and Jamaica. Contact: brad@bradmcrae.com
The Weighted Averages Method of Decision Making
Research has demonstrated that when decision-making reaches a certain level of complexity, it becomes increasingly difficult to make a decision because most of us can only keep a certain number of variables in our minds at any one time. Furthermore, there is typically a steep decline in our ability to make decisions once the number [...]
Master Leaders are Master Decision-Makers
A journalist was interviewing a successful businessman. He asked what his success was based on. The reply was “decisions.” Not being happy with the answer, the journalist asked, “What were those decisions based on?” The answer was “experience.” Still not happy, the journalist asked “how did you get that experience?” The answer – “Bad decisions.” [...]
The Master Leadership Model
All of the interviews I conducted for my book The Seven Strategies of Master Leaders: Featuring key insights from 32 of Canada’s top leaders and all of the studies I have read can be summarized in the seven strategies pictured below.
Mastery is being able to use the right leadership strategies combined with the right higher-order [...]
Economic Engines
In my first blog I said that real leaders solve real problems and use valuable resources wisely. In my second blog I talked about setting Tipping Point goals. In this blog I would like to share an example of an extraordinary Canadian leader who has done both of these things superbly and that leader is [...]
Why Master Leaders Set Tipping Point Goals
One of the most important things I discovered from the 32 people I profiled in my book, The Seven Strategies of Master Leaders, is that Master Leaders don’t just set goals, they set Tipping Point Goals. In his best selling book “The Tipping Point” Malcolm Gladwell masterfully demonstrates in case after case where seemingly small [...]
Proroguing Parliament
If leadership is about one thing and one thing only, it is about accountability. This sentiment was made famous by President Harry Truman’s aphorism, “The Buck Stops Here.” Canada is a country that is in the midst of a financial crisis, we are involved in a war in Afghanistan, and there was an inquiry into [...]
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