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You don’t. You never do. Leading by example is based on a faulty assumption: that people will see only the behavior you want them to see and follow only the behavior you want them to follow. News flash: the people who work with you see everything. They see not
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In memory of my mother's passing, I'm paraphrasing a passage from a book by Parker Palmer. It expresses exactly what I experienced. I share this as a way to reach out to other people who are dealing with loss and grief. A few years ago, my
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I'm a jazz fan, always have been. And I'm a Monk fan. Monk created this list when a musician joined his band for a multiple-week gig. I encourage the managers I work with to have a readme document for themselves and to have a structured,
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Leadership is about doing something new or better, whether a simple process improvement or a transformation. It is more about reframing for improvement. It likely calls upon people to learn new skills and shift beliefs. Our tendency to ascribe leadership to individuals that hold a formal entitlement as head of
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The principle: Humans crave independence and control so giving it to them at work should be a good thing. The caveat: As people feel increasingly autonomous, they can also become unmoored from others' needs, expectations and social norms. Research results: Managers who value being respected will respond to empowerment
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I hope the irony is not lost on you that after years of living in a foreign land under the tutelage of a stranger whose language you’ve had to learn, your words of wisdom for us are: “you can find everything you need inside of you.”
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Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
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It's not about having so much money that you can buy anything you want. It's about having enough money to buy everything you need.
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I’m allergic to clichés and buzzwords. And this might be one of them. A research project reports this: The employees described inclusive leaders … as leaders who act in ways that demonstrate their values and communicate openly and honestly. They treat each employee as a unique individual, recognize each person’
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Perhaps you do this already with your team: you take the first few minutes of a meeting to check in, sometimes as a group and sometimes in random pairs or trios in breakout rooms. Just a few minutes to chitchat - about anything but work, like what would happen randomly at
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The job candidate selection process does not work. Even Google has taken back their famed clever interview questions. There is just no data to support that the job candidate selection process is effective at screening for success or at predicting that candidates will remain with the company. A few years
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According to a recent study ((https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html)), unlike the growth patterns in the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of full-time workers did not share in the economic growth of the last forty years. Had the income distributions of the three decades