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Danny Ertel

Don’t Predict the Future — Plan for Its Uncertainties

4 min readMay 26, 2021

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Don’t Predict the Future — Plan for Its Uncertainties

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Danny Ertel

Don’t Pull Up the Drawbridges! Pave Your Path to Recovery with Key Partners

Adapt relationship strategy and planning tools we use in “good times” to create pathways to recovery — and bring key partners along with…

8 min readSep 11, 2020

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Don’t Pull Up the Drawbridges! Pave Your Path to Recovery with Key Partners

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Danny Ertel

Leading Transformation: The Soft Skills of Enabling (and Accelerating) Change

Leaders must listen, demonstrate empathy, and engage emotionally. Without connection, change fatigue sets in, real transformation fails.

7 min readJul 16, 2020

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Leading Transformation: The Soft Skills of Enabling (and Accelerating) Change

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Danny Ertel

Getting Others to Go Along — The Soft Skills of Influence and Building Alignment

Leadership’s real challenge is how to influence others to “do better” — and align around something other than the lowest common…

6 min readJun 25, 2020

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Getting Others to Go Along — The Soft Skills of Influence and Building Alignment

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Danny Ertel

Better Solutions Together: The Soft Skills of Leading Collaboration

Leaders must problem-solve and lead others to do so when standard answers don’t work or plans prove outdated. In other words, all the time.

5 min readJun 11, 2020

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“Metallic Spheres Network”: Adaptive, collaborative leaders excel at problem-solving, and leading others to do so.

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Danny Ertel

Leading to ‘Do Better’: The Soft Skills of Value Creation

Individuals in an organization watch for, and internalize, leaders’ signals about what matters; what leaders “count” defines our culture.

5 min readJun 4, 2020

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Leading to ‘Do Better’: The Soft Skills of Value Creation

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Danny Ertel

As the Unexpected Becomes Routine: The Soft Skills of Adaptive Leaders

Study after study confirms companies will experience critical gaps in so-called “soft skills” that are essential for adaptive leadership.

5 min readMay 28, 2020

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As the Unexpected Becomes Routine: The Soft Skills of Adaptive Leaders

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Neither Nero, nor Chicken Little: My Short List of Essential Skills for Turbulent Times

Absent an infallible crystal ball, how to we decide what capabilities to build and how to prepare ourselves for the next crisis?

6 min readApr 30, 2020

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Neither Nero, nor Chicken Little: My Short List of Essential Skills for Turbulent Times

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Danny Ertel

Danny Ertel

Founding partner at Vantage Partners; noted author, speaker, teacher, and expert in negotiation, relationship management, and organizational transformation.

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