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Our daily Field Notes email is just the kind of jumpstart you need. A fast read. Maybe less than a minute. Because sometimes it just takes one insight to change the trajectory of the day.
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Anything for an Edge
So what is your edge? What insight or action gives you even the slightest advantage over the competition? Find an edge that bolsters the team and gives them even more confidence during performance. For leaders, helping others find an inner power is the real secret sauce.
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Honesty Doesn’t Guarantee Integrity
Ask a good leader what they stand for, what they value most, and you will hear two words more than any others: honesty and integrity.
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Talking Politics in the Workplace
Talking Politics in the Workplace
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Do You Find Passion? Or Does it Come With You?
Do You Find Passion or Does it Come With You?
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The Time Has Come to Work on Your Stage Presence
Stage presence reflects the ability to capture and command the attention of an audience. Leaders can learn a great deal about presentational excellence by studying how the world’s best stage performers create the energy that mesmerizes audiences.
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Give People a Choice Between Two Yeses
When offering others a choice, it is both natural and expected to give people the option of acceptance or rejection. Most commonly, this means giving others the choice between yes or no.
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Think Big or Go Home
Thinking big enough doesn’t sound like a difficult thing to do, but most leaders fail at it.
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Practice for the Novel Situations
When people are surprised by a situation, they respond unpredictably, often poorly. This is why preparation and rehearsal for the unexpected is a touchstone of great leaders. Before they present, great speakers anticipate every reasonable question and rehearse their answers before they perform and then take questions. They know exactly how they will answer every…
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Providing Examples Says You Own the Problem
Providing Examples Says You Own the Problem To avoid more detailed feedback and the full debrief for correcting weak performance, team members sometimes say they own the problem, even when they don’t. To get the monkey (you) off their back, as the saying goes, they offer happy talk and tell leaders they “get it” and…
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Avoid the False Negative at All Costs
Avoid the False Negative at All Costs