A life of ease. Leaning back on your couch, enjoying a favorite activity, working to learn something so it becomes easy for you to live in your comfort zone. This all sounds so very good. And yet, is that goal the goal that serves us best: to just get to where it all becomes easy? To

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Here are a few things we know about leadership – it is important, but it is also complex and confusing. When you put those things together, sometimes we make it even more complex – which doesn’t help us. So, let’s step back and clarify what leadership requires as a starting point by creating an acrostic,

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Think of a time when you were truly grateful, almost overwhelmed with gratitude. And think about how it feels when you’re in that moment. It certainly feels powerful, but it also feels personal. But today, I don’t want you to be selfish with that fabulous feeling, because I believe that gratitude is more powerful when

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No one works on an island. Even if you do literally work on an island, you don’t work alone – you still have colleagues and teammates. The question I am often asked is “Do I have to like my teammates?” Have to? Probably not. But is it in your best interest to build working relationships

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People are amazing and people are messy. And right now, I’m not just talking about other people. I’m talking about you and me. We’re amazing. And we’re messy and we’re strange and we’re unpredictable. And while you might think that this video is going to be about other people and the challenges in getting along with

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You know that when we are grateful, we feel better and have a better attitude and outlook. Because of that, we know that gratitude is good. But those experiences also leave us thinking about gratitude as a personal thing. While gratitude is a personal experience, we can share it with others. And when we do,

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True north. Readers of business and leadership books will immediately think of Bill George when they hear that phrase. George, the accomplished CEO of Medtronic, later became a writer and teacher and urged us all to find our True North. To find who we are as a leader and use that awareness to find our

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Boxes are useful. They help us to carry and move things. They have sides. They have tops. They’re also static. You can get only so much volume in them. People, however, are not boxes. People can grow and expand and move and strengthen. People are not boxes. So how is it that we actually put people

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