Kevin Eikenberry

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How to Encourage Your Team to Make Decisions

Kevin Eikenberry

Whether thinking about the short-term need for decisions to be made or the long-term implications for […]. In a world of constant change where the status quo is a myth, making decisions are part of the lifeblood of any successful organization.

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Is it Noise … or News?

Kevin Eikenberry

Success in the short term and long term will be influenced by our ability to assess informational value. We have more information available to us than ever, both personally and professionally. Colleges and universities offer degrees in data science and analytics that didn’t exist 15 years ago. The post Is it Noise … or News?

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Transaction or Interaction – Remarkable TV

Kevin Eikenberry

In a fast-paced (and often remote working) world, we seem to run our days on “transactions” – short-term, project-driven tasks. And while transactions get things done in the short term, relationships are built and nourished on interactions. That’s why it’s important that we […].

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Some Help With the (Ongoing) Reality of Remote Work

Kevin Eikenberry

For many, it started as a short duration necessity – working remotely for a few weeks. Now Labor Day has passed with no end in sight (and maybe a plan to continue to work remotely for the long term). Then we thought it would be over by Memorial Day. Then the Fourth of July. Since […].

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Creating a Communication Cadence

Kevin Eikenberry

Finding our way here is critical to our short and long-term success as a leader. As leaders, we must always be thinking about when and how and what we communicate with our team members. New leaders wonder how to do it and it can be even more challenging and complex if you are leading remotely. […].

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Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work. And What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing and Engaging

Kevin Eikenberry

Today I am making two recommendations in one short post. They are already, but generally in superficial, short-term […]. One for a book, and one for an accompanying teleseminar that we were able to “motivate” the author to lead. The post Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work.

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The Best Leaders Know Self-Esteem is Scarce

Kevin Eikenberry

In economic terms, it is when people have unlimited wants but resources are limited. insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth. A key concept in economics is scarcity. If you look up scarcity in the dictionary, you will find a similar idea: 1. rarity; infrequency.