
Grow more organized with your thoughts. Your calendar. Your plan. Your actions.
Grow more confident in leading others. Handling conflict. Following a calling.
Grow more influential in your community. In employee engagement. In your customer’s experience. Even with yourself.
There’s no shortcut to your personal and professional growth.
Just a willingness to work on the hard stuff. To wrestle.
It’s a method that is, literally, ancient. And it is an exclusive approach Hip Socket provides clients today.

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- The Inquiring Leader: How five managers asked employees questions and avoided the exit interviewFrom Mike and Mark’s new book, “The Inquiring Leader:” How five different leaders used questions—not counteroffers—to retain employees ready to …
- The Inquiring Leader: How curiosity saved $1.2 millionFrom Mike and Mark’s new book, “The Inquiring Leader:” The real-world story of a general manager who slashed “time-to-line” from …