More and more leaders are leading teams that aren’t in the next cubicle, down the hall or right out in the shop or warehouse. We are leading people we don’t see every day (or almost ever). And to do this well is even harder than leading next door – because communication is harder, there are

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Quality. Excellence. High standards. All things worth thinking about personally and professionally. And all things associated with Steve Jobs. So who better than Steve Jobs to challenge us today? Questions to Ponder – Who is my yardstick? – Am I a good yardstick? Action Steps 1. Make your personal expectations of quality clear. 2. Live

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To make the delegation last for the long-term, you must focus more on the other person and help them succeed rather than just getting the task off your plate. Check out this video to find out how this simple step can make your delegation easier and more effective. If you want to delegate and not

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Onboarding. It’s that very corporate sounding work for what used to be called New Employee Orientation. If you work in a large organization, your HR department likely has created a process for doing this – and while the depth and success of these efforts may vary widely, chances are your process is helpful. Let me

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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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Change. It creates a variety of thoughts and feelings in everyone’s head the moment you hear or think about the concept. Today’s quotation is longer than most I feature here, but since change is a big topic, more words are worthwhile. Specifically, today’s idea encourages us to take action on the change that is going

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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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The Feedback Sandwich is a common model for giving feedback to others, and unfortunately an often ineffective one. Check out this video to find out why this approach could be undermining your efforts and learn tips for structuring your feedback so that it is positively received and actually used! Make your feedback honest, meaningful, and

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If you live in most of the United States or Canada, you recently lost an hour of sleep. If you live in some other parts of the world, you’ve got a couple more weeks to hold on to that hour. I’m talking, of course about Daylight Savings Time. Some people love it (especially in the

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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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