By Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao Sometimes books arrive at just the right time. Perhaps that is why I feel so strongly about this book before I even finish. You see this book is about growth and scaling your enterprise, project or team. Currently I’m doing all of these, so the message of this

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Focus. It is one of those words everyone says is a good thing – something most people would like to be better at. Yet by itself, something is missing. What are you focused on? Daniel Goleman, best-selling author and a codirector of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence In Organizations at Rutgers University has thought about this question

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By Catherine Burns, Editor Catching up on magazine reading from last year, I saw an ad for a book I’d never heard of. I was intrigued, and since my iPad was nearby, I reached for it and investigated the book on Amazon. Five minutes later it was on my Kindle and 24 hours later I

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Over the years, I’ve come to believe, and have told many groups, that feedback often says as much about us as it does the performance about which we are giving feedback. Even if you wouldn’t go quite that far, it is safe to say that it is difficult/impossible for our feedback not to be, at

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I don’t often (ok, basically never) write about politics or the political system, except to look for lessons we can learn from what our leaders are doing (or not doing). I’ll get to the lesson, but first, the frustration most all of us share. Why can’t our Congress and our President get along? I mean,

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While Valentine’s Day is past, it is still the month of love, so I’m staying with that theme. Couple that with the post I wrote last week about a dialogue disaster, and this week I want to talk more about dialogue and connect it to romance.  Strange? I think when you are done reading you

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Giving feedback can be difficult, especially when it’s to a friend who you’re now managing, or to an older colleague, or even a colleague that you’ve never had this sort of relationship with before. So in this episode of Remarkable TV, I’m sharing the biggest secret to giving better feedback. Check it out here. When

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Valentine’s Day is the day everyone is thinking about love. So I’ll go with that thought and encourage you to think about love today – but from more than one perspective. Questions to Ponder – How can I help those I love win? – What does winning at love look like? – How does this

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It happens everywhere I go – and it does to you too – if you notice (and aren’t doing it yourself). Last winter, I was at my daughter’s first Middle School swim meet, and I was appalled. Not by the contestants, actually I was inspired by their performances, support for each other, and more, but that is

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We all spend lots of time trying to get better at communicating. We practice writing better emails, we take public speaking courses, we try to tell stories to make our point, and lots more. And as important as all of that is (and it is), great communication isn’t just about sending a message, it is about assuring

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