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A while back I started paying attention to the wisdom that you shouldn't use your cell phone as an alarm clock. The underlying logic is t...

One of the features of the COVID-19 quarantine is the upending of the long-held notion of being-at-the-office-to-get-work-done. Productiv...

Every night at 7pm exactly, we go to the park outside our house and make noise for 60 seconds. This little ritual developed as a way to h...

Problems happen. And the response can occur on at least two levels. Level 1: identify the thing that happened and its impact.  Seek to de...

As leaders, it's our responsibility to communicate proactively. Each instance of communication we provide for our team helps fill in thei...

Your capacity to learn from and adapt to an ever-changing environment is a crucial competitive advantage. In life, it will keep you alive...

Bill Gates famously remarked that "bad news must travel fast." Your competitive advantage as an organization lies in your ability to iden...

Having a great day at work is defined by the effectiveness of your efforts and the quality of your relationships. Here's one tip to impro...

What gets rewarded gets repeated. And one of the most accessible and affordable forms of reward you have in your toolbox as a leader is e...

Burnout Defined: A state of emotional and physical exhaustion, coupled with cynicism against any hope of positive change. The Six Factors...

Edgar Schein from MIT says the key to effective business results is healthy relationships. This is seems obvious on its face, but Schein ...

"This job would be easy if it weren't for the people." "Employees don't care. I have to watch them closely the entire time." "How is this...

3 questions to fuel forward momentum

"And what else?" Almost every good thing starts with curiosity. The ability to ask a question and genuinely listen to the answer is the g...

Reverse delegation is that uncomfortable feeling when an employee takes a job you've given them and comes back to you with a handful of p...

One sign of organizational health is constructive conflict in your meetings. The fact that someone cares enough to make a ruckus about an...

You've determined to use meetings as a chance to make in impact, you've invited the right people, you've communicated the agenda, you've ...

One of the biggest frustrations in organizational life is the meeting that overruns its allotted time. It inhibits your colleagues’ capac...

One of my children was born via C-section, and I was alongside my wife in the operating ward. It was a routine, scheduled procedure. The ...