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When High Performance Suffocates a Career
The Peter Principle aside, leaders and team members don’t advance in organizations unless they are highly competent and produce quality work. Everyone knows that organizations reward the highest performers with more responsibility and more positional authority. This is especially true early in a career when competence and expertise clearly differentiate who can be counted upon…
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Why Do People Insist on Holding Far Too Many Team Meetings?
Why Do People Insist on Holding Far Too Many Team Meetings?
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Positive and Negative Frames for Justifying a Major Change
Positive and Negative Frames for Justifying a Major Change
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To Awaken Your Team’s Ambition, Consider Adding a Zero
To Awaken Your Team’s Ambition, Consider Adding a Zero
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Do You Know a Leader Who Is Sleep Deprived?
Do You Know a Leader Who Is Sleep Deprived?
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Busy Leaders Insist a Complaint Must Be Followed by a Solution
Good leaders sometimes attract more complaints. When team members feel empowered, trusted, and safe, they speak up more freely. It’s not that members of empowered teams are unhappier; it’s just that they feel more comfortable voicing their views. And they often do. Team members complain to register their minor dissatisfactions and to push leaders to make changes
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Expanding Your Relationship Range
Leaders, like everyone else, gravitate more toward some people than others. They naturally find affinity, connection, and value with a small portion of those they meet and work with. The kinds, types, and profiles of people they find a connection with normally share similar qualities, although those attributes can vary widely between leaders. Leaders find
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How to Get Better at Not Sweating the Small Stuff
When time frames shorten, the brain changes how it processes what matters. Leaders at the end of their careers, people at the end of their lives, and team members resigned to leave positions all change what battles they are willing to fight and what issues they are willing to take up. When time horizons shrink,
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To Get the Most From Your Day, Consider Time Blocking
As far back as Benjamin Franklin, the most productive leaders have alluded to a time management approach which productivity guru Cal Newport has popularized and called time blocking. Whereas most people approach their workday by constructing a task list and crossing items off, time blocking requires leaders to figure out in advance how they want
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Preparing to Be Resilient
The uncomfortable truth is that the insecure team member’s low self-esteem is more selfish than humble.