by Kevin Eikenberry Leadership has always been complex. You are trying to reach new and important outcomes and do it with human beings, who are all different and inherently amazing and messy.  If you lead essential workers (in a hospital, factory, warehouse, or restaurant, for example), your team has been and will continue to be

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by Kevin Eikenberry Much has been written over the past few months about the mental health challenges for those working from home for more than a year, as they navigated changes to jobs and unclear expectations, and challenges with balancing their work and life all while never leaving the house and doing it all during

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by Kevin Eikenberry As a leader you make decisions every day.  Some are bigger than others, and some may be bigger than we realize at the time. It is often these decisions with far reaching impact that we underestimate, or don’t spend enough time thinking about.  I believe we are facing a set of those

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A recent report from Microsoft acknowledges and puts numbers to something many of us who work remotely have felt in our guts: Many remote managers are thriving with work-from-home, while their employees are feeling more stressed than ever. Microsoft’s latest white paper, The Next Great Disruption is Hybrid Work-Are We Ready? is full of fascinating

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by Kevin Eikenberry As I look ahead at the murky future of work, I know that words and how we choose them will play a role in what unfolds and how successful we are.  Here are some examples. The Words We’ve Chosen When organizations sent their people to “work from home,” for many that became

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by Kevin Eikenberry Looking back, it is easy to see moments that matter in our lives.  There are meetings, conversations, and decisions that when we look back, we know changed the trajectory of our lives. Less frequently are we able to predict those moments looking forward.  Most all organizations are facing one of those moments

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There’s a lot of conflicting news about when, how (and if) people are going to go back to working out of offices like they did before the pandemic sent everyone home. Some people can’t wait for any semblance of normalcy. Others have discovered the advantages of remote work. Some organizations are throwing themselves into remote

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By Chuck Chapman, Content Strategy Coordinator To say this last 12 months has been a struggle would be one of the bigger understatements ever. This pandemic has quite possibly been the greatest challenge our world will ever face in our lifetimes. The good news is that all indications point toward lower case numbers (and with

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As a leader, odds are you keep a lot of running lists. Without them, a lot of us wouldn’t be able to prioritize tasks, remember who is working on which projects, or whether we need to pick up milk before dinner. For those of us who are chronically absent-minded, they can be life savers. But

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When the rush to work from home started, most people assumed it was a temporary measure, and the world would somehow right itself in time. While many people are looking to return to the office later this year, nobody can quite agree on what that will look like. One thing is more likely than anything

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