Perhaps the most important skill a leader can have is to engage in timely, appropriate, and ultimately successful conversations with others. So often things get in the way. It might be that we are uncomfortable with the other person or the subject is something that we have been avoiding. Sometimes it is just our own […]
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Organizational culture – that all-encompassing and always elusive aspect of organizational functioning that impacts and guides everything that happens or fails to happen within a group. It affects every aspect of our daily lives and interactions at work whether we are conscious of it or not. Whether we like the results or not. This omnipresence
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There are very few experiences in the world that everyone shares. What makes these situations so powerful is a shared experience that everyone can relate to. Although our individual experiences in these situations are unique, we share a powerful commonality centered around a key event. These experiences are powerful for us both as individuals and
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The world of office work changed in March of 2020. The question is, did it change forever – and more precisely – for good? I have experienced a number of webinars and scanned more than a few articles in recent months that have declared the office as we know it as dead. “It’s gone and
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If we were to ask leaders of organizations around the world what was the most disruptive event or thing to have happened in 2020 that impacted their business, the overwhelming majority would point their fingers towards COVID-19 and the pandemic. However, disruption is a tale as old as time and an inevitable part of any
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When I served in an Army tank battalion we were taught marksmanship; first at stationary targets, and later, at moving ones. In the classroom, we learned that if the target was moving left or right you had to aim a bit ahead in the direction it was traveling in order to hit it. As we
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As a senior vice president, I used to sit around the table at corporate boardrooms and listen to varying opinions about the business. Some I agreed with – others I did not. When I experienced disagreement rising, I could feel my energy building towards argument and a need to somehow convince the other person about
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I remember hearing a joke about a young man on a blind date. Over dinner, he spent hours providing his date with non-stop detail about his life, his thoughts, and his feelings. At some point, though, in a rare moment of introspection, he must have recognized that perhaps he had talked too much and had
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You’re a busy manager and it’s Sunday evening. You’re trying to get ready for the upcoming week. You log onto your work calendar and incredulously look at your Monday schedule wide-eyed. You are booked with continuous back-to-back meetings from 7 am until 6 pm! “What happened?” you ask yourself. Then you remember that a dozen
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Working from home for the last eight months has certainly created its share of challenges for me as an entrepreneur and I’m willing to bet that I’m not alone. It took me a short while to get myself and my team situated, and, thanks to their adaptability and dedication, we were able to flex to
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