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Leading a Team Changes Everything

You’ve probably seen an ad by Johnson and Johnson over the years with the slogan that “Having a baby changes everything.” When you have a child, everything does change...
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Who You Gonna Pick?

People get promoted. They leave for another job at another company. They make a lateral move for another job at the same company. They retire. And yet, when it’s inevitably...
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Did You Lose Something?

If you lead people, you know that at some point or another a teammate is going to leave. If their performance and commitment were lacking, it’s probably a good...
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Who is Leaving? Who Are You Attracting?

The people that care the most leave first. This was a key point in Seth Godin’s recent blog post, “You are not the lowest common denominator,” which references the...
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7 Ways to Make Positivity a Habit

For some reason, positivity often gets a bad rap. In television and film, overly positive people are portrayed as airheads who are clueless as to what’s really going on. A great story...
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Want Trust? 5 Things to Stop Doing

Trust… it’s difficult to define and impossible to force. Building trust with others is the foundation of success. Trust glues marriages together, bonds friends for life, builds partnerships and...
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Be More Than Mediocre

One of the things I enjoy most about my job is meeting face-to-face with the people that we serve. I spend a lot of time in the field with...
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Leaders Are in the Weed Wacking Business!

Getting “out of the weeds” is probably one of the most coached subjects I have with executives. It is when a leader gets too involved with the details of...
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5 Tips for Dealing with Unexpected Change

In the past month, I have had a lot of people in my business life hit with the challenge of change. Not the exciting kind of change that we...
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Top 5 Things New Leaders Should Know

Should the principles of leadership change over time? Should each new generation of leaders redefine what leading is? It is my belief that the principles should not, and need not,...
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