Jason Womack

MARCH 7, 2011

One book I read, "Don't Shoot the Dog," by Karen Pryor, taught me about the power of reinforcement. I continued learning from reading "The One Minute Manager" by Ken Blanchard. It wasn't about controlling the students, she taught me, it was about getting them to want to succeed.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

Mine was legendary humorist and media figure Cactus Pryor. His father, Skinny Pryor, owned a movie theatre and entertained audiences with comedy routines during intermissions. Today, when I use nouns as verbs and place business terms out of context to make people think creatively, I’m thinking back to Cactus Pryor.

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Pryor Mentor Learning-by-Doing Audience 50

Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Book: Good Awkward By Henna Pryor Reviewed by: Glain Roberts-McCabe The Premise In Good Awkward, author and TEDx speaker Henna Pryor invites her readers to “embrace the embarrassing and celebrate the cringe to become the bravest you.”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

My entertainment mentors were Cactus Pryor and Bob Gooding. The Colonel had just founded a fast food empire called Kentucky Fried Chicken. He was heralded as an entrepreneur who was also a senior citizen. The 24-year-old newscaster at the radio station was Bill Moyers.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

Greg Pryor, head of talent at Workday, which partnered with us on this research, describes the difference as working to pull people into your network rather than pushing your way into theirs. “We teach our people how to draw people to their ideas and create energy in interactions from day one,” he explains. ”

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