This weekend our house was full of little children, parents and grandparents, all convened to welcome our family back home for our visit to the USA. A fly on the wall would confirm that there was …
Performance Reviews Don’t Have to Suck
If there’s one thing that people hate, it’s performance review time. Managers complain that they don’t have time to document and deliver reviews and too many people feel like it’s a necessary evil …
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The Most Powerful Question a Leader Can Ask
I’ve worked for a lot of managers – good, great, average and awful. In consulting, I would switch projects every few months. More often than not, I’d have a new manager I was reporting to and just …
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Calling All Future Leaders: It’s Time To Make a Decision
Twenty years ago, I started in my first real job out of college as a Change Management Consultant for a big consulting firm. “The Firm” taught me how to think, how to speak, how to dress, sent me to …
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Are Slackers Stopping Your Team Success?
I can’t stand it when people want someone else to do the work for them but still feel like it’s their own accomplishment. Reality is that most teams have people that contribute to varying degrees on …
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Even Leaders Crash Their Cars
I admit it: I hit a car today. The worst part? It was parked. My first instinct is to defend myself: It was parked at the end of my driveway The car was halfway on the sidewalk and halfway …