Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) The title makes a definitive statement – “must” is a strong word. And observing leaders for over thirty years, I know that not all leaders think about what I’m about to tell you about. But all the most
I have recently taken up bird watching. I don’t tell you that so you think I’m cool, (It wouldn’t work. No cool person has ever said, “I’m a birder.”) But it has me thinking about birds. And evolution. And, on a particular Sunday afternoon, about the evolving workplace. Stick with me on this, there’s a
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Most of us have asked ourselves “who am I?” at various moments in our lives. I would suggest that more leaders should ask the corollary question. “What kind of a leader am I?” is the leadership identity question
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) I’m going to give you the hard truth (and the big key) to professional excellence in the next few hundred words. Even better, it isn’t just the key to professional excellence but excellence in any part of your
Something we have been doing our entire lives should be easy and instinctual. Right? What if that thing is communicating? If it’s so natural, why are we always complaining that someone misunderstood what we said, or that meeting could have been an email, but nobody read the email!? This is particularly common in remote work
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Whether you know it or not, you have a leadership identity. And that identity plays a very real part in how you do the work of leading every day. It is hard to overstate the role our identity
Uncertainty. It’s everywhere.Whether it’s a shifting marketplace, changes in your organization, or even the everyday unknowns of life, we all face uncertainty — often more than we’d like. And when we do, it’s easy to feel anxious, frustrated, unsettled… even scared.If you’re a leader (and even if you’re not), these feelings can get in the
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) VUCA (which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) was coined as an acronym first described by Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in their 1985 book, Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge (link to the 2007 second edition). It
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Tension. It’s something we like in the plot of a movie or novel. It’s something that has us bingeing a show we like. But tension in our work and decisions? For most of us, we’d prefer less of
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Leaders have a lot on their plate – and a lot on other minds. They have responsibilities galore and likely a full inbox. They are expected to be on point, on-the-ball, and on top of everything. Many wear
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