by Robert Hackman

Welcome to the 4C Blog

You will find articles and videos that provide perspectives and insights that have proven helpful to our clients and us. They exemplify our thinking, values, and approach.

We categorize our articles by topic to make it easy for you to find the ones that match your needs and interests. 

The content we create almost always pertains to more than one area of focus. We have placed the articles in the category most closely relevant to its purpose.

We hope you find these helpful and look forward to conversing with you to determine how we can work together to put these ideas and other methodologies to work for you, your team, and your organization. 

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Most Recent Posts

How Everyday Legacy Mindsets Grow Your Emotional Intelligence

Antidotes to Burnout (Part 3)

Antidotes to Burnout (Part 2)

Leadership and Team Development

Antidotes to Burnout (Part 3)

Antidotes to Burnout (Part 2)

Antidotes to Burnout (Part 1)

What Do Elephants in the Room Cost You?

What is Worthy of Your Dedication?

How Can Companioning Benefit Leaders and Teams?

To What Do You Need to Awaken?

One Man’s Storied Reminder of Distorted Thinking

Leaders – What Are You Sending Downstream?

Comprehending Leadership

The Compassion Responsibility Connection

Believing is Seeing

Sticking My Head in the Sand

Trauma Responses

Sometimes You Need to Pivot

How Many Friends?

I’ve Got Regrets

Curiosity and the Curse of Knowledge

Most Important Resource and Fly in the Ointment

The Marvel of Hugs

Our Regard of Women Informs How We Lead

Developing the Vital Habit of Turning Toward

Preserving Dignity: A Connected Leadership Essential

Wording Yourself and Your Team into Focus

40 Ways to Help Navigate Uncertainty with Skill and Intention

In Praise of Unsolicited Feedback

The Surprising Advantages of Predicting Your Own Demise

You Cannot Microwave the Process

Friendship and Loneliness at Work and in Life

How Real are you Willing to Be?

The Seductiveness of Invulnerability

Unleash the Power of Clarity

Stop Degrading Your Executive Presence, Self-Confidence, and Well-Being

Remembering the Superpower of Joy

40 Remedies for the Imposter Syndrome

My Name is Eric, and I am… – A Leadership Perspective for a Pandemic

Five Strategies to Communicate, Connect, and Lead During a Pandemic

We Were Wrong About Teams

How a Question Changed Ben Hogan’s Life

Executive Coaching

What Makes Leadership Conversations So Potent

Fun and Laughter in Coaching Relationships

Cultivating the Openness to Receive

Identity Impacts

Judgement and Curiosity

Have Fun Growing Your Leadership

Choosing to Work from the Path of Who You Are

One of the Greatest Kindnesses

40 Ways to Navigate Uncertainty with Skill and Intention

The Same as and Different From

Which Values are Essential to You?

What if You Were Always Enough?

Confessions of a Lousy Mediator

Remembering to Change One Moment at a Time

The Realistic Optimism of Improvisation

Unleash the Power of Clarity

Remembering the Superpower of Joy

Legacy Mindset Coaching and Consulting

How Everyday Legacy Mindsets Grow Your Emotional Intelligence

Embracing Gratitude with Open Eyes and Wounded Hearts

Question: Who Do You Think You Are?

What is the State of Your Legacy?

What Are Your Legacy Time Horizons?

Essential Questions Regarding Your Legacy

Everyday Legacies Everywhere All at Once

Generosity and Selfishness

The Why and How of Everyday Legacies (Part 1)

The Why and How of Everyday Legacies (Part 2)

The Why and How of Everyday Legacies (Part 3)

The Why and How of Everyday Legacies (Part 4)

The Why and How of Everyday Legacies (Part 5)

The Why and How of Everyday Legacies (Part 6)

The Why and How of Everyday Legacies (Part 7)

What Legacy Mindsets Can Do for You

What’s Your Listening Legacy?

Legacies are for the Living

The Legacy Wisdom of Dr. Seuss

A Quest for Fewer Regrets

Unlocking Legacy Freedom

Everyday Legacies

Seeing People

Reimagining Men’s Leadership

Embracing My Sensitivity

Male Proving Grounds 

Grieving the State of Boys and Men in America

The Joy of Hiking with Men

Masculinity Masks

Resonant Reactions to ‘Oliver Sacks: His Own Life’

A Son’s Father-Son Narrative

The Power of the Feminine

Strategy Consulting

How to Piss Off Prospective Customers Effortlessly

Fast-track Your Growth with a Single Strategy

Due to Unexpectedly High Call Volume

Minding Company Cash Flow in a Pandemic – Crisis Leadership Strategies

Are Your Go-to-Marketing Strategies Upside Down? – Use this Rule of Thumb to Make them Right Side Up

Have You Ever Looked for a Second Chance to Make a First Impression?

How to Win Big with Small Data

Case Study: Breakthrough Results Through Continuous Problem-Solving

Case Study: From Red to Black, How to Turn Declining Sales into Double-Digit Sales Increases Through Strategic Marketing

Managing Change

Reimagining Imagination

Remembering to Change One Moment at a Time

What Would Our Successors Do? – A Simple Criterion for Change

Diversity and Inclusion

A Lesson Learned

Friends Under Duress

Learning to Be an Ally

Women in the Arena

The Big Lie of Intolerance

Fun & Miscellaneous

Sharing Music Lyrics that I Like (Part 1)

Sharing Music Lyrics that I Like (Part 2)

Sharing Music Lyrics that I Like (Part 3)

Sharing the Fun of Cover Songs (Part 1)

Sharing the Fun of Cover Songs (Part 2)

Sharing the Fun of Cover Songs (Part 3)

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