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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Leading is a lonely job. If you have been in any sort of leadership role you know that is true. It’s funny that a role that we perhaps aspired to, and one that may have some cache’ and even leave others a bit envious could be lonely. But it is. Let’s talk about why that

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Recently, my wife, Lori and I were on the beach (specifically in the Outer Banks of North Carolina), and one of the things that we did was occasionally pick up a shell. It appeared that everywhere we walked, there were shells. I noticed that after you picked up a shell and the water washed in

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Mind your P’s and Q’s is an English language phrase that means “mind your manners”, “be on your best behavior” or “watch what you are doing.” (For more on the origin of this phrase go here.). While that might be reasonable advice for leaders, that isn’t the point of this article. I want to encourage

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Are you tired of webinars? I’m sure you have been to some good ones, but I’m guessing the overall quality of them is pretty uneven. And while you may recognize that people will offer a product or service at the end, sometimes it seems like all they are doing is selling. What if you could

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You read that right, yo-yos and leadership. I’ve done what we call mashups before, where we take something and connect it to leadership. I’m going to do that again in the video below, and I hope you find this to be fun and insightful as we talk about yo-yos and leadership. Lesson #1: Getting by comes quickly. Lesson

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Before the Pandemic, we created the Remarkable Retreat. An intimate, customized retreat for leaders desiring to take their leadership to new levels – and find more meaning in their work, too. In the new world of doing so many things virtually, we wondered if we could create a virtual leadership retreat. We’ve done that, and

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Someone recently asked me what we’ve learned about podcasting because as of the time I’m recording this, we’ve been doing it for over six years, every week, sometimes more than every week. Having an interview or a conversation with a leadership expert or an expert leader every week. So what have we learned about podcasting? One

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