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Is silence a leadership skill?
“If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.” ~George Barzan I am definitely one of those people who “think out loud.” My business partner and I have an understanding that I can ramble on as we think through a challenge. It’s the way I...
Is your star performer a bucket-kicker?
My mother-in-law had a saying about people who could be really great and then would do something that totally negated the good that they did. "He's like a cow that gives a good bucket of milk - and then kicks it over," she would say. I dubbed my mother-in-law's...
Let go of the junk you’re clinging to
“You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.” ~Louise Smith So often, we claim to be asking for something different and new. So often, we get frustrated because, try as hard as we can, we can’t seem to achieve that illusive dream...
Are you addicted to adrenaline?
A few weeks ago, on a day jam-packed with emails and to-dos and a full day of facilitation for a client, I received a desperate email from a dear friend and colleague in London. She was scheduled to work with a client in three-days time, and was denied a visa to...
The leadership practice of loving life.
"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." ~Arthur Rubenstein I always cringe a bit when we write about love. It's a four-letter word and especially a four-letter word in the work world. But I think we need more of it anyway, so we write about it...
How to handle in-fighting on your team
When I resigned my job as a general manager, the hardest part was leaving a great team of people who exceeded their goals and worked well together. But it was not always that way. When I took on the role, I quickly learned that the managers who reported to me were far...
Take the leap out of analysis paralysis
"To change one's life: start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." ~William James Sometimes we live with the status quo. For a long time. For no particular reason. And to our detriment. Sometimes we know we want to change things, but we hold back. Because...
Conflict is good – five ways to make it even better!
From the moment we wake up, we can be – and often are – in conflict with others. With our family members over how the day will go, with team members about the best next step on a project, with our manager over how to implement a new process, with colleagues about...
Motivation is an internal job
“You can take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.” ~Jeanette Rankin We know how others should act. We know what they need to do. We know, often without a shadow of doubt, the best plans for their future and personal development. The...
How to handle the “elephant in the middle of the living room”
We partner with clients to help their leadership teams have strategic (and necessary) conversations - the conversations they all know they need to have, and the conversations they all seem to be unable to have. Because there's usually that "elephant in the middle of...
The sheer joy of leaving things undone
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone." ~Lin Yutang There are some of us who live in overdrive. We may set a goal of slowing down, of taking time, of easing away from always pushing forward, but we often still...
Five key steps to reigniting your passion
Remember when you first got your job? Remember how excited you were? Remember when you first heard about your promotion, how you were bouncing off the walls and posting your news everywhere? What happened? When did your passion and excitement die away, and perhaps...
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