Category Archive: Leadership Development

How to Discern the Hidden Meaning Behind Suggestions

Complainers have suggestions for others. ‘We should’ means ‘you should’.

Discern the meaning of pronouns.

3 Rules for Being Yourself at Work

You stumble into success when you practice being yourself.

It happened to me when I stopped trying to impress people.

How to Lead Successfully in a Global Environment

It’s impossible to over-communicate when teams are far away from each other.

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Choose to Hug New Ideas Before Killing Them

People learn to keep their mouths shut when new ideas face a firing squad.

Exploring an idea is different from agreeing with it.

The Surprising Source of Unintended Toxicity

Good intentions don’t guarantee positive results.

Toxicity is almost always unintended.

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How to Define Deadweight

Teams rise when you ditch deadweight.

One bad apple lowers performance by 30 to 40 percent.

How to define deadweight…