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Failure to Lead
The other day I read in The Guardian about a man without the ability to walk who was made to drag himself off an airplane because a flight attendant told him that they could not get a wheelchair to him in time without causing flight delays. The man and his wife (they were taking a special trip for their anniversary), thought at first that the flight attendant was making a bad joke. When they…
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The Problem with a Jobs-Obsessed Higher Education
The Higher Education industry is hyper-focused on justifying the cost of education with how it correlates to the jobs graduates get. Along those lines, credentials and micro-credentials are a craze right now. Executive leaders have come to believe that credentials are the key to the future. And they very well may be right. When I was in graduate school, I remember being bent out of shape that I…
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Create a Growth Mindset Team
The trick to having a growth mindset is knowing when to throttle down. How we learn, problem-solve, and just generally think effectively is a process. Sometimes we respond impulsively, making quick decisions based on assumptions, past experience, and urgency of the matter at hand. This can work out fine. Often it doesn’t. Gnarly problems and challenging issues require deeper concentration and…
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Create a Growth Mindset Team
The trick to having a growth mindset is knowing when to throttle down. How we learn, problem-solve, and just generally think effectively is a process. Sometimes we respond impulsively, making quick decisions based on assumptions, past experience, and urgency of the matter at hand. This can work out fine. Often it doesn’t. Gnarly problems and challenging issues require deeper concentration and…
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The One-room Schoolhouse Workplace
Visionary and effective leaders want people on their teams and in their organizations who are hungry to do more, hungry to innovate, and hungry to learn. If you want those people in your organizations, you better be ready to feed them. Providing meaningful and impactful learning opportunities for a workforce is the most powerful way to engage high performers and keep them engaged. While…
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Mentorships Mentorship May Be More Complicated Than You Think
Tread carefully when thinking about mentorship programs.
I believe in the power of mentorships. I also believe that people can vastly underestimate the complexity of what it takes to match a protege (or mentee) with a mentor, or they may have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a mentorship is. A mentorship is a special relationship. It requires the mentor to have gone through the same path (typically a career path) that the protege seeks to…
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Powerless: The Devastating Effects of Not Being Heard at Work
Powerless: The Devastating Effects of Not Being Heard at Work
There are a lot of reasons that people get burned out at work. Mostly it boils down to a lack of agency. When people feel like they have no real control or ownership over their own jobs, it becomes debilitating. There is an issue closely related to this lack of agency problem, but different enough that it’s useful to call it out explicitly. It’s the problem of feeling powerless to affect…
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Learning is Wellness
Continuous learning is the substratum upon which everything and everyone can flourish in successful organizations today. Any organization that purports to support the wellbeing of their employees, must first provide the structure, culture, and resources for people to always be learning. The evidence on the effect learning has on wellness is clear. In the UK, a program for people with mild to…
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Mentorship is Leadership
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The Leadership Bottleneck
What happens when your leadership pipeline creates a leadership bottleneck?
Here’s the scenario: A new CEO takes the helm of your organization. She quickly sees that she’s got a problem on her hands. Before she got there, people in formal leadership positions were not trained properly before they moved into their roles, and now they are not particularly responsive to professional development.…
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Making Leaders
Regarding that age-old question of whether leaders are born or made, here’s what I think. No, I don’t think people are born to be leaders. No, I don’t think anyone can be a good leader. But it’s not as mystical or dramatic as some might like to believe. Really it comes down to two things. You gotta want it and you gotta want it for the right reasons.
There are people out there who just don’t have…
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The Future of HR
The Future of HR
In the future, HR will be fervent about developing people and helping them realize their greatest potential. It will be about proactive care of people—maximizing the good, not just minimizing the bad.
HR won’t be about reacting to fuckups all day long, struggling to keep up, and bemoaning their inability to do anything about it. Nor will it be about providing loads of training that teach people…
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The Big Problem with Saying "If You Don't Like It, Leave"
The Big Problem with Saying “If You Don’t Like It, Leave”
First and foremost, as a leader, when you respond to someone’s concerns, objections, or skepticism with something like, “If you don’t like it, leave,” it is an indication that you are complacent and on a race to the bottom. The implication is that you are fine with your organization being shitty because you assume it’s even shittier elsewhere. Not a great attitude to project. But there is…
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What Happens When Patience, Persistence, and Empathy Come Together
What Happens When Patience, Persistence, and Empathy Come Together
Making good things happen is successful at the intersection of patience, persistence, and empathy. Yes, we must be persistent in realizing our vision and implementing our plans.
Bold ideas require tenacity if they are to become a reality. You have to be willing and able to push through the resistance and overcome the obstacles, but we also must be careful not to rush into action. This is…
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The Dirty Secrets About Micromanaging
The Dirty Secrets About Micromanaging
There is a time and place for micromanaging. During significant change, like when a new leader or manager steps in, a direct report is new to a job, or when a big new initiative is being implemented, some level of micromanagement is often necessary. Managers and leaders are responsible for things like level-setting, compliance, efficiency, and just a basic understanding of what everyone does and…
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Of Janitors and CEOs
Of Janitors and CEOs
There are few quotes I despise more than the one that says something like “I was raised to treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO.”
Under what conditions would you need to make this proclamation? What is the objective here? It’s certainly not to make a statement about equity or respect. The point-of-view is first person singular. The subject is “I.” The narrator is just explaining…
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Is Professional Development Just a Distraction?
Is Professional Development Just a Distraction?
We have reached a point in the evolution of leadership and organization effectiveness where we understand the importance of the physical health of the people who work in any given organization. We have OSHA standards, promote health habits, and encourage fitness activities. We know that ensuring well-being is not only the ethical thing to do, it also makes good business sense. People are more…
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