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The struggle between work and family many of us feel is partly due to the fact that we rigorously schedule and structure our work lives, ...

Decide what you're not going to be good at.  Be strategically mediocre. Many of us carry around an expectation of ourselves as high-cap...

Take a look at this graph that shows basketball coaches who worked in both college and the pros. What do you notice? What explains the su...

Don't give up. If you're struggling, take heart: The reason you got into this was to make a positive difference. As long as you've got br...

My great fear is having 15 years of experience, but in reality I have 2 years of experience, with the 2nd year repeated 13 times. It's ea...

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...

Here's a few tips to leaving a meeting well: Schedule meetings back-to-back. If one meeting looks to runs long, you simply say, "my next ...

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...

Commit to not describing yourself as busy. I know. You are. We all are. But you don't need to let that state of affairs define you. Here'...

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...

Email can take over your life if you're not careful. And sometimes it can take over your life even if you are. The amount of email an off...

Burnout is the state of emotional physical exhaustion, coupled with a pervasive cynicism against any hope for a better future. Gallup res...

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

In Oregon, where I live, the legislature recently enacted a single-use plastic bag ban in grocery stores. Starting January 1, we all have...

Writing your goals down makes you 42% more likely to achieve them. But as you set off into 2020, invigorated by the idealism a new year b...

I was a disaster as an adult in college. My life motto was a lyric from Simon and Garfunkel's Only Living Boy in New York, "I've got noth...

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