Each year, I post a list of my favorite books from the previous year, ones that changed me along the way. This year, I chose ten of the best books I read and why they may just be relevant for you.
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What young team members often fail to recognize is the principle of leverage. When a new staff member demands rights or perks, it can…
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I offer three steps I’ve taken that helped our organization, Growing Leaders, climb out of the pile and change how our industry and consumers see us.
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There is a time to be visible and a time to be…
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Being a team player doesn’t mean your identity changes, but your…
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What we say to ourselves is crucial because it shapes our…
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“Do they always treat you this way when you fly?”
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When we can’t agree on the facts, we begin to see ourselves as…
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I recognize these are strong words, but I am musing about what we can learn a week after this horrible incident.
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We returned to a new normal at work that’s not necessarily better.…
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Mark my words: the leaders who set their companies apart from others practice both.
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Now that we’ve heard the pundits assess both President Biden and Trump after their debate last month, I felt something was missing…
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A forceful leader can reasonably expect to persuade a sizeable proportion of group members. Then…
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If you worry about their judgments because you simply don’t want people to dislike you, that’s…
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Every one of us influences the culture in our organization in big or small ways. Often our impact is subtle and inconspicuous.
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Why is it that people say they want more “good news” but they don’t look for it? Regardless of our claims, humans favor clicking on and viewing bad news. So—what’s it done to us?
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Offering hard feedback has never been easy but today it is tougher than ever.
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After more than ten years of stability or even improvement, the mental health of teens plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and even suicide increased sharply, more than doubling on most measures.
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The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media
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While problem-solving is a fast way to deepen one’s influence on a team, it depends on how one goes about addressing the problem.
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