Steve knew he was facing a challenge. As he walked into the budget meeting, he squared his shoulders and took a deep breath. The facts were on his side. Now it was time to convince the rest of the senior team, and, most importantly, his CEO. The challenge at.
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Praise in public, critique in private. It’s Management 101. Most decent leaders know it’s detrimental to reprimand employees in public. It’s unkind and does not improve performance. What’s less talked about though, is the impact public critique has on the person who is giving it. I was recently working.
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Do you like conflict? Most people don’t. But sometimes, trying to keep the peace simply prolongs the problem. I was working with a leadership team who had problems with the IT department. They were reluctant to openly express their frustrations to the IT leader (their peer) because he was.
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When it comes to bad circumstances. There are two kinds of people. The people who want to prove they have it worse than other people. And the people who will tell you others had it worse than they did. I usually fall into the second group. Telling yourself other.
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There’s your life, and there’s the way you process your life. We all have an outside life and an inside life. While the events of our life are happening, there’s a parallel interior talk track accompanying them. Here are two mental shifts that will help you experience more happiness,.
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My neighbor thinks his wife divorced him because of a ham sandwich. He’ll tell anyone who will listen about the crazy woman who left him all because one night, instead of having dinner with the family, he made himself a ham sandwich. That one sandwich ruined 20 years of.
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How often do you indulge your creative spirit? Creativity makes you happier and successful. Yet for many people, their work is devoid of creativity. Sometimes it seems like organizations specialize in sucking the creative spark out of people. Roles and departments get siloed and with no outside creative energy,.
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Are you great with details? Are you a team player? Are you a rock star networker? Those qualities will help your career – until they hurt your career. If you’re a man reading this and you’re about to stop, hang in there. You’re about to discover some new information.
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Have you heard about the fast growth Houston, Texas company that had their core values etched in stone in their lobby? Integrity was at the top. Still struggling to remember? They became really famous. It was Enron. Epic level value failures like Enron show up frequently in the news..
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Is there an incentive to be friendly? For many people, there are actually more incentives to be negative. Recently, we were working with a client who was trying to improve their customer service. Despite training, continual prompting and incentives, several team members were reluctant to be positive..
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