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The Homecoming Queen Grows Up (kinda)

Women on Business

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. Wesley December 24th, 2010 at 5:00 pm Susan: I am impressed by the wisdom of your words — also a function of of your age and life experience! Why does this one refuse to fade? The answer is obvious. And I am not alone.

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Breaking the Rules

You're Not the Boss of Me

It lacks maturity and I hazard to say, increases, rather than diminishes, the need for more rules. And yet, in my growing, (ahem), maturity I really see the need to continually question rules that make no sense to me. The resulting behaviour from this laissez-faire approach is a kind of chaos that tends to serve no one in the end.

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Exploring Shared Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

Shared leadership includes a level of maturity that to me transcends that kind of practice and focuses instead on tangible outcomes. So that’s it for now… over to you. What clues do you see that an organization is not as engaging as it purports to be?