Leadership
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Mid-Year Wake-Up Call: How to Stop Reacting and Start Leading Yourself
Here’s a hard truth most business coaches won’t tell you: Busy is not a business strategy. It’s a disguise. After working with professionals across many industries for more than 30 years, I can tell you this: the people I work with are among the hardest working I have ever met. And yet, a surprising number…
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Stop Letting Urgent Steal Your Future: The Eisenhower Matrix Every Leader Needs
Memorial Day encourages many of us to pause and reflect. We honor the courage and sacrifice of those who gave their lives for something greater than themselves. It is also a reminder to think about what truly matters most in our own lives and leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower understood this better than most. Before serving…
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Bucks County Leadership: Heather Wilson, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer, YMCA of Greater Brandywine
As the YMCA celebrates its 175th anniversary nationally, the YMCA of Greater Brandywine (YGBW) is focused on what comes next in Chester County. That work is being driven in part by Heather Worthy Wilson, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at YGBW, who has spent the last year helping to shape the organization’s three-year strategic plan,…
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Slowing Down to Go Faster in the Age of Acceleration
Taking the time to deliberately appreciate the present moment can greatly support your overall well-being. In a world that keeps moving faster and faster, we have a new disease to be wary of: The Busyness Disease. Often, we move through life so quickly that we don’t take the time to pause and acknowledge our wins…
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You’re Making More Progress Than You Think. Here’s How to See It
A few weeks ago, I had one of those days that looked productive on the surface but didn’t feel like it. The calendar was full. Emails were answered. A few meetings checked off. By the end of the day, I had technically “done a lot.” But if I’m being honest, I couldn’t point to anything…
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April Showers, May Results
“April showers bring May flowers.” After a particularly rainy April this year, that phrase kept coming back to me — on rainy drives, looking out the windows, even walking into a few conversations with clients who felt like they were stuck in their own version of a storm. Not the kind you can see on…
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Where Is Your Attention Taking You?
If you pay attention to your day for even a few hours, you’ll start to notice something. There’s a constant conversation happening in your mind. It shows up in how you interpret situations, how you respond to challenges, and how you talk to yourself when things don’t go as planned. Most of it happens automatically,…
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Plant the Right Seeds
This time of year brings a natural shift. The days get longer, the weather improves, and there’s a renewed sense of energy around growth and possibility. It’s also a reminder of something simple but powerful: growth doesn’t happen by accident. In a garden, nothing appears overnight. Before anything can grow, something has to be planted.…
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Lincoln University Grad Darryl Ridgeway Named 2026 Diversity in Business Honoree
Darryl Ridgeway, a Lincoln University graduate and assistant sales manager at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach, has been recognized with a 2026 Diversity in Business Award, writes Lara Schwartz for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Ridgeway created First Year Boost, a one-on-one coaching program for new and newly affiliated agents at the company’s Society Hill office.…
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Have You Created Space to Think?
It’s easy to get caught in the rhythm of doing. Meetings, decisions, responsibilities — one thing after another. But every now and then, something forces you to step out of that rhythm. For me, that moment came recently — a five-day silent retreat that gave me the chance to stop, slow down, and reset. The…
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Gary Smith: Leading Chester County From the Farm and the Office
While you may know him as the leader of the Chester County Economic Development Council, Gary Smith is still a farmer in every sense of the word, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Smith grew up in the New Garden area shucking corn and milking cows on his family’s farm. He attended what’s…
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Are You Fooling Yourself?
It’s the end of the day. You finally sit back for a moment and look at everything you touched — emails answered, calls taken, messages returned, small fires handled as they came up. The day felt full. Fast-paced. Productive. And yet … something doesn’t quite add up. The work that actually matters most — the…
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Bucks County Leadership: Alex Balagour, EVP and Chief Information Officer, C&N | Banking, Lending, Wealth Management
Alex Balagour, EVP and Chief Information Officer at C&N, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about his globe-hopping childhood as the son of an economist and an electrical engineer from what was then Soviet Ukraine. Balagour immigrated to the U.S. with his parents when he was 16 and spent his youth exploring the offerings of his local…
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Harcum College Welcomes Paul Tomczak as IT Planning Executive Director
Paul Tomczak recently joined Harcum College as Enterprise Resource Planning Executive Director, effective Mar. 23. Tomczak brings more than two decades of leadership experience in enterprise software development and project management, most recently serving with Ellucian, where he directed large-scale software initiatives supporting colleges and universities worldwide. During his tenure, he led global development teams,…
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Protect Your Most Valuable Property
Most professionals assume they have a time management problem. But in many cases, the real issue is something deeper. It’s an attention management problem. Entrepreneurial coach Dan Sullivan describes attention as a form of property — something you own and have the right to control. Yet in today’s busy world, it often feels like everyone…
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Create Your Own Luck This St. Patrick’s Day
Around St. Patrick’s Day, people talk a lot about luck. Someone lands a major opportunity. A new client appears at just the right time. A breakthrough idea seems to arrive out of nowhere. From the outside, it can look like fortune simply showed up. But if you study high performers long enough, you notice something…
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Busy Is Easy; Focus Is Rare
We live in a culture that rewards responsiveness. Quick replies. Full calendars. Constant motion. And because of that, many high-performing professionals mistake busyness for productivity. But they are not the same. Time management teaches you how to organize hours. Attention management teaches you how to direct energy. That difference matters. When your attention is fragmented,…
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Bucks County Leadership: Keith Sterling, CEO, Habitat for Humanity MontDelco
Keith Sterling, CEO of Habitat for Humanity MontDelco, spoke with BUCKSCO Today about how he came out of retirement during the quarantine: What started with his reaching out to help build affordable homes for his community ended up with his becoming a nonprofit CEO within a year. Sterling came to Habitat for Humanity with an…
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