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Make Sure Your Strengths Don’t Become Weaknesses
Do you want to improve as a leader? Conventional wisdom will tell you, “build on your strengths, compensate for your weaknesses.” But there’s more to it than that. Think about what you believe are your...
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What Your Feedback To Others Says About You
Do you value giving feedback to your reports and other co-workers? Have you been told that feedback is an effective managerial tool that you should be using more? Do certain of your co-workers’...
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What’s Good About Having A Bad Boss?
So you have the boss from hell? Seems that lots of people have had this experience. A recent study claims that 65% of Americans would like a better boss – almost twice as many as would like a pay...
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Have You Created An In-Group On Your Team?
If you are managing people, it’s likely that you are observing your reports in action, noticing what they do well and what they don’t, and forming judgments about their capabilities. These are...
View ArticleThe Golden Rule of Interviewing
You probably know the old saying – he who has the gold makes the rules! But, with interviewing, there is another golden rule, one that can affect your ability to get the job you want. Managers will...
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The Distorted Lenses Through Which We See
Humans are meaning-making creatures. The processing units in our minds instantaneously take the information that comes in through our senses, and attach meaning to it. Over time, the meanings we have...
View ArticleHow to Find and Grow HIPOs
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) recently identified key skills they see as essential for success in the future workplace. These skills include… identify meaning beyond what is expressed, assess...
View ArticleThe Importance of Purpose
“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone’s task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning For me, Frankl is...
View ArticleThe Value of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape – Andy Stanley “Often wrong, but never uncertain.” I’m always troubled when I hear that phrase about another person. The world I see...
View ArticleThe Illusion of Control
If you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. – Hillary Clinton To make sure we’re discussing the...
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Building Others’ Commitment to Your Success
Beneath the surface of any leader’s daily actions lies a set of assumptions about what will make the leader successful. Some of the assumptions I’ve repeatedly seen include: I need to have others in...
View ArticleYou might be a narcissistic leader if…
What comes to mind when you think of great leaders? Visionary? Charismatic? Big personalities? Create transformative change? If that’s your picture of a great leader, then it involves narcissism....
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