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Joe Curcillo is an executive leadership keynote speaker who helps associations, boards and executive teams close the Integration Gap™: the distance between what your people already know and what actually reaches the decision. A trial lawyer and negotiator for 41 years and a performer for 48, he is the author of five books, including The Generalist’s Advantage and Hold the Horizon. Learn more at https://joecurcillo.com
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What the Courtroom Teaches Leaders About Listening
I’ve spent forty-one years in courtrooms, and I’ve watched people sit through the same trial, hear the same witnesses, review the same evidence, and leave

The Problem Your Best People Keep Solving
By Joe Curcillo Before you congratulate someone on finishing a difficult job, ask what they had to do to finish it. Sometimes you’ll hear about

The Outsider’s Question
The Outsider’s Question Expertise teaches you what to look for. Spend enough years in law and you learn which facts matter and which ones probably

What Fell Through the Gap?
What Fell Through the Gap? By Joe Curcillo Some organizational problems are easy to understand. Someone made a mistake. A warning was ignored. The

The Expertise Is Already in the Room. The Connection Isn’t.
The Expertise Is Already in the Room. The Connection Isn’t. By Joe Curcillo Most organizations do not suffer from a shortage of expertise. They have

Step Out of Your Lane Before It Becomes a Blind Spot
Step Out of Your Lane Before It Becomes a Blind Spot By Joe Curcillo Some people walk into a room and see the people. Others
Happens Between the Lanes
The Most Important Work Happens Between the Lanes By Joe Curcillo “Stay in your lane” is usually offered as good advice. Know what you know.

You Don’t Just Have a Labor Shortage. You Have a Decision-Making Shortage.
The employees already there were not lazy. They had learned that making a decision created personal exposure, while passing the file to another desk did

The Plan Was Never the Point
Why the best-run associations are quietly loosening their grip on the five-year plan. Years ago, Charlie “Tremendous” Jones gave me a piece of advice I