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How do you overcome an imperfect boss?
When it comes to developing a great relationship with a boss, most of us can use all the help we can get. You have more power than you think.–Karin Hurt This is the heart of a great new book by Lead...
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It’s Not A Gap Year! It’s An Education.
Education is learning languages: the languages of words, music, math, art, chemistry, biology, etc. Education is learning paradoxes … and oxymorons. So let me highlight an oxymoron that is damaging...
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Great Work = Great Career Development
What actually contributes to great work? What questions should be asked? How should connections be expanded? How do we go about growing together? How do we set ourselves apart as “the best”? Read...
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10 Management Lessons from Dragon Army
Business insights can come from unexpected places, including children’s literature. Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card paints a marvelous portrait of people management, vividly contrasting what...
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Must Wins
It’s never too early to start planning for 2015. What do you want to accomplish? How are you going to get there? What are the critical things you must accomplish, and what lofty opportunity would be...
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Take Charge of Your Career Like a Boss
I train a lot of managers. One thing we cover is to NOT take for granted what employees understand about their jobs. You’ve probably heard me preach about the importance of one-on-one meetings and how...
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Where Have All the Apprenticeships Gone?
I’ve been doing a lot of hiring in the last few years, although I didn’t intend to do so. I’m not a recruiter, headhunter, or HR professional. I am a business leadership coach who deconstructed and...
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Job Security: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
“…The only real security you have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” - Henry Ford Take the lead to create your own job security. My first experience in wrestling with my...
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Will this project manager make a good people manager?
Sam’s team just delivered a complex project on-time, on-budget, and with impeccable quality. His company is eying him for promotion, because they want him to “rub off” on other project managers, whose...
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You Don’t Have to Go it Alone
I was speaking to a colleague last week about some problems he had working with his peers, and his boss for that matter. We talked about the dynamics when he and his teammates worked together. He was...
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