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What Football Can Teach You About Effective Teams
Congrats! You’ve hired a stellar senior management team. Each of them is an absolute rock star with an impressive resume and – individually - they’re amazing. So why is your team underperforming? Why aren’t you seeing the kind of collaboration or decision...
How To Return from Vacation and Not Be Crushed
This time last month, I was in the Galapagos Islands, watching sea lions bellow and marine iguanas dive into the surf. I spent seven nights on a boat: filled my stomach with amazing seafood and filled my days with great conversation and snorkeling to my heart’s...
How To Give The Feedback People Want + Need
Even if he’s too polite to say this himself, my client John is great at what he does. He pours everything into his projects: researching every corner of the market, interviewing experts, and discovering really creative, innovative solutions to problems. So I wasn’t...
How To Get Real Honest Feedback When You’re The Boss
We can all agree there are some pretty great things that come with being The Boss - the corner office, more vacation time, having a say in the direction the company is taking. But there are drawbacks to being in a position of leadership. It’s a fact of corporate...
Are You Making the Ultimate Hiring Mistake?
You’re an experienced leader. Of course you know how to hire someone! You’ve got a long list of required qualifications, you’ve scouted candidates from the best, most impressive sources, and you’re well aware that anyone you hire needs to get along with the rest of...
Entrepreneurs Need Leadership Too!
A while back I wrote a post called “Leadership Development. . . for a Start up?.” After I clicked ‘published’ I received email after email and comment after comment from people agreeing that (counterintuitive as it might seem) it’s critical that entrepreneurs focus on...
An Antidote for New Year’s Resolutions
We’re two weeks into the first month of 2015. How are those resolutions going? Uh. . . yeah. . . maybe next year I’ll do yoga twice a week. So many of us (myself very much included!) spend our New Year’s Day listing all the ways we can be better/thinner/more...
6 Ways To Make Your Team Feel Appreciated During The Holiday Season
Gather round, readers! It's time for a bit of holiday storytelling. Long ago and far away, I was a young, hungry intern. I spent my days happily making copies, proofreading, stuffing envelopes, and filing documents. I worked my 20-year-old tail off, thrilled to be...
Accountability: Why Your Delegation Didn’t Work + 3 Ways To Fix It
So you’re pretty sure you’ve mastered the art of delegation (because you read this post.) You’re all ready to kick back and dig into those wonderful, exciting projects that require your secret sauce. Those edits to your presentation? Never made. Budget revisions? Two...
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