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How Come So Many Smart Leaders Screw Up the Return to the Office?

Lead Change Blog

The tensions of returning to the office and figuring out the most effective permanent post-pandemic work arrangements are the topic of my newest book, Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage. They spent their career surrounded by other people.

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The Fine Line Between a Collaborative Employee and One Who Doesn’t Get Enough Done

Harvard Business Review

Managers and employees can then map out, together, a career development plan so that the path forward is clear to everyone. And while building trust and consensus early in a project might seem time-consuming at the start, it has long-term benefits. See the value in collaborative leadership. Names have been changed.

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Thank You for Doing Your Job

Harvard Business Review

for the quarter, just barely clearing the consensus estimates of $0.40. When what our colleagues and employees do every day becomes no more than a benchmark to beat (e.g. Early on in my career, I had a boss who discounted my ability to connect with clients. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem? They reported $0.42