The Value of Feedback
According to the book The Leadership Challenge, one of the things leaders can start doing to become better leaders is to ask people to...
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- Oct 16
Book Review - Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
RIGHT KIND OF WRONG - PART ONE In Part One of her book (Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well), Dr. Edmondson introduces a...
- Jul 4
Don't Be Petty and Don't Delight in Other's Misery
Petty is an interesting word. The Collins Online Dictionary defines it as: mean or ungenerous in small or trifling things a petty person...
- Jun 4
What it Means for a Leader to Take on "Extreme Ownership"
Photo: Jocko Willink (left) and Leif Babin (right) I've written before about "extreme ownership" and how passing the buck (i.e., blaming...
- May 2
Good to Great to Gone
I was once part of a leadership development initiative (in 2019) that required partnering and collaborating with a third-party vendor,...
- Apr 9
Book Review: The Leadership Challenge, 7th Edition
In this book review of The Leadership Challenge (7th ed.) by James (Jim) Kouzes and Barry Posner, I'll compare the 7th edition (2023) to...
- Mar 7
Don't Get Hooked on "Fake Work"
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must...
- Dec 19, 2022
Don't Outsource Your Thinking
If there's one thing I've learned from attaining my Ph.D. it is this — don't outsource your thinking. As a society, we've become lazy,...
- Aug 8, 2022
Defining Moments - Short, Memorable, and Meaningful Experiences
“Our lives are measured in moments, and defining moments are the ones that endure in our memories.” -Chip Heath & Dan Heath In The Power...
- Jul 1, 2022
Values-Based Leadership
Professor Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management says a values-based leader aims to...
- Oct 10, 2021
How to be a Good Internal Consultant
As an internal consultant and a member of an internal consulting team (although “internal consultant” or “internal consulting” is not in...
- Aug 17, 2021
Book Review — Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The
“What we have found, again and again, is that people tend to underperform because they do what is comfortable, what is familiar, or what...
- May 31, 2021
Book Summary & Review — Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Unc
According to Adrian Gostick, one of the main reasons for writing the book had to do with his (now) 25-year-old son, Anthony (Tony)...
- May 16, 2021
What Burnout Is and Why It Isn’t Confined To The Occupational Sphere
What Is Burnout? Burnout isn’t just being tired or “fed up” with work. “Burnout is far more than feeling blue or having a bad day. It is...
- Apr 25, 2021
Self-Insight Is Sparked by “Crystallization of Discontent” Moments
“The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that’s a good thing to learn.” -Christina Baker Kline (American novelist) In...
- Feb 22, 2021
How to Give Direct and Clear Feedback
From front-line leaders all the way up to C-suite leaders, I have seen, time and time again, how managers have made a mess in delivering...
- Nov 5, 2020
Can video conferencing apps mimic or replace human-to-human connection?
I was contacted by a journalist writing a story about workplace communication, why human beings need human-to-human connection in the...
- Oct 4, 2020
Blocked Personal Learners Don’t See Value in Self-Development
“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from...
- Aug 31, 2020
Three Leadership Derailing Behaviors
Leaders exhibit common bad habits and researchers have pinpointed specific behaviors that can derail a person’s career (Lombardo &...
- Aug 2, 2020
To Engage and Retain Employees Provide a “Mini” Job Rotation During Employee Orientation
Have you noticed that, in many companies, employees often have no clue what many of the other employees in other functions do to support...
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