A map app on your phone can be extremely helpful. But have you ever been frustrated that the routes sometimes make no sense? Have you ever looked at something from two different angles and seen something entirely different? Or looked back at a situation a day or a week (or longer) later and noticed something

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You’ve been in a leadership role for a while. You may even be leading other leaders. You have developed a routine and a rhythm as a manager. But your intuition and perhaps your results and feedback tell you that you have plateaued. One way or another, you know it is time to up your game

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“You need to report to jury duty.” Have you ever gotten a card with this message on it? I have, and quite recently in fact. And during my time there, I got to thinking about those words: JURY DUTY. While many will look at it as a DUTY, I don’t think that the word accurately

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Is that even possible? Emails that could improve our lives? Most people talk about email as the bane of their organizational existence! Plenty of studies talk about how much of our work lives are sucked up by email. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some email strategies to make email a more valuable part of

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When I started researching and working on this Remarkable TV episode, I discovered that like much of our language, the meaning of the words ‘politically correct’ have changed over time – leading people to have very different opinions on the meaning of the words. And given this, I don’t think that they are very effective

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You’ve felt the pain of hybrid meetings: the people who can’t hear what’s going on, the remote team members who can’t get a word in edgewise, the people in the room who get side tracked by birthday cake and the meeting runs long. What’s a leader to do? For years we’ve been suggesting a solution

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Microscopes and telescopes are different instruments used in different scientific disciplines to help understand and explore what is being studied. While you have likely looked through both, you’ve likely not thought about their connection to your success as a leader. Until now. Both provide a view of the world, and both can help us learn.

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There are two important concepts in the six-word title of this post. If you agree with both, you are eager to read. If you don’t, perhaps you need what follows even more. First, the best leaders are coaches; and second, I’m implying the role of confidence in coaching (and leadership) success. Given that, let me

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The legendary speaker and author, Jim Rohn, famously said: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” The idea of who we are spending time with is an important concept to think about both as leaders and as humans. Do you know your answer or the answer of that

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Predictions abound this time of year, but as leaders we should be thinking about more than what changes are coming. We must prepare for how those changes will impact how we must lead, the climate in which we are leading, and how they will impact those we lead. I’ve looked into my crystal ball, asking

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