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The Mistake We Make When Trying To Be Fair

Lead Change Blog

I coached youth baseball for over 15 years, from 5-year-old kids to 14-year-old teenagers, and at least two things were common across all the age groups: 1) the kids always kept score, and 2) they were the first ones to remind me if I wasn’t being fair. It’s helpful to understand exactly what “fairness” means in an organizational context.

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Working Manager: How to Support Your Team and Get Work Done Too

Let's Grow Leaders

Even more so when you can’t meet everyone’s assumptions. Make sure your team knows what everyone can fairly expect from one another. So free yourself from the feeling that you must do it all and focus your energy on making a real difference. What should I do?” If that sounds familiar, this article is for you.

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The Blight of Soul-Crushing Useless Negative Feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Negative feedback that makes no sense.”. Three characteristics make performance feedback so destructive. Other managers live in the world of “I’ll encourage you when it’s perfect—and there’s no such thing as perfect.” When someone isn’t performing well, talk about it. Just had annual eval – most useless ever.

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Help for the Overwhelmed Working Manager

Let's Grow Leaders

Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. 00:37 So today we’re talking about a question that came from one of Let’s Grow Leaders Asking For A Friend segments, which is something we do in our leadership development programs.

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Is the Game Rigged Against You?

Lead Change Blog

We have all seen him in our workplace. We may have even seen him in ourselves many a time. As human beings, we have a deep-rooted belief that life should always be fair to us. Life isn’t always fair. Fairness of Life. He finds mistakes in your work that you thought were trivial. Dennis Wholey.

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Elon Musk: In His Own Words

Leading Blog

Here are several: ☙ I think I would make far fewer mistakes [if I were to go back in time and talk to my 20-year-old self], like, “Here’s a list of all the dumb things you’re about to do. ☙ Do you have the right axioms, are they relevant, and are you making the right conclusions based on those axioms?

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Torn From The Headlines Leadership Lesson: To Fire Or Not To Fire?

Terry Starbucker

Every business makes mistakes, but then there are MISTAKES. One such challenge came up earlier this week over at US Airways (now part of American Airlines), when a company Tweet went way off the rails. Here is what their spokesperson said, when asked if someone would be let go: “No, absolutely not.