Culture
George Burns on Seamlessly Replacing Members of Your Team
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A talented individual recently resigned from my organization. Where my typical first reaction is to dissect the culture for a diagnosis as to why she left
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Confidence
Mission (Not Quite) Impossible: Ethan Hunt on Direct Abstraction
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After successfully concluding a large-scale undertaking, I don’t typically feel like celebrating. Instead I sit back, pour a glass of bourbon, and think
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Comedy
Raising Kids vs Raising Employees: Sarah Silverman on the Rhetoric/Reality Gap
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When’s the last time you considered how your behavior is perceived? Do the discrepancies between your actions and intents send mixed messages?
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Weekender: Judd Apatow on Micromanagement
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Welcome to another edition of leadersayswhat’s the Weekender, a micro amount of information to start your weekend on the right track. Why just a micro?
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Vince Chase and his Entourage on Team Performance
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According to a recent paper in the Harvard Business Review, there are four basic types of people in the office environment. These differences are based
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Mad Men on the Power of Nostalgia
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The week, AMC’s juggernaut Mad Men ends its eight-year reign over cable television. No longer will we have our window into 1960s America and the salacious
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Collaboration
Weekender: Ringo Starr on Taking a Team’s Temperature
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Welcome to another edition of leadersayswhat’s the Weekender, a small octopus’ garden worth of guidance to start your weekend off on the right track.
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Collaboration
Curtailing “Look, a Squirrel!” Affliction with Attention Narrowing
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The workplace is full of distractions (I received three email alerts and a text in the time it took me to write that first sentence). We are overloaded
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Kickstarter on Leadership Crowdfunding: Three Lessons to Sell Your Vision
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I am a Kickstarter enthusiast. This includes investing in cool tech gadgets, supporting movies (Go Veronica Mars!), and exploring the newly posted items
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Will Smith on Path (vs Goal) Orientation
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I am not a “stop and smell the roses” type of person. When someone throws this common cliché at me, I tend to put them in the category of “you don’t have enough to do.
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