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Leading Thoughts for March 28, 2024

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Discernment enables a coach to ask effective questions, unearthing roadblocks, fears, and doubts that keep a team member from reaching his or her goals. Pete Davis on democracy and commitment: β€œIn many ways, our whole democracy is an exercise in intertwining commitments and change. And where do you get discernment?

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Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023

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Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.” Source: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower II.

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Leading Thoughts for November 16, 2023

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Whatever the crisis, the Self-Aware remain even-keeled and committed to the goal.” Knowing yourself comes with a guaranteed pinch: (or more) of humility, so when a self-aware person is faced with a challenge, they can decenter themselves from the issue.

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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

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There’s no way to reach a goal when everyone is rowing out of sync. VIEW FEEDBACK AS A PLUS As a business committed to focusing on your talent, you must commit to hearing from employees. When your executives have different visions, you have a problem. This is what leads to employee turnover. I call this a culture of feedback.

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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

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Seventy percent of corporate β€œchange programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Ethnography is premised on empathy, and the goal is to understand a given culture from the β€œnatives’” point of view β€” through their eyes, in their words. The goal was to help employees put their family needs first.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

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In my younger years, I had many visions of the ideas, goals, and positions that I wanted to achieve. Those who lack vision or don’t know how to identify and act on their vision will struggle with wealth attainment, achievement of goals, and personal fulfillment. Some of them came to fruition.

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LeadershipNow 140: May 2023 Compilation

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It Matters More Than You Think by @PhilCooke The Death of The Manager Role Is Predicted Yet Again. What's Really Needed by @artpetty 8 Things All Great Mentors Do by @briankdodd Empathetic Chatbots: Can Leaders & Doctors Be As Empathetic?