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School’s in Session for Everyone!
My nephews are lawyers. I asked the one who practices in WDC, “What’s it like being a lawyer in these days of the assault on our justice system?” He told me this: I remember attending a mandatory training event after passing the bar. The first speaker began with something like, “Congratulations on passing the bar!…
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Putting together the “team” puzzle
I like putting jigsaw puzzles together. Here’s my strategy: Pick a picture I like. Know that I am choosing the challenge, choosing to play the game. Put the frame together by assembling all the edge pieces. I touch every piece and only pull out the ones with flat edges. My focus is the to…
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The dreaded “C” word
No, not cancer and not covid. The dreaded word is constraint. COVID-19 has dramatically shaped our reality. It’s up to each of us to design an empowering relationship to the current, real, even threatening, constraints. In support of creating this relationship, please consider my offer at the end of this blog. So…
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Management & Leadership Skills: Have both, not either
One person wants to be a better manager. Another wants to be a better leader. Choosing to be “either” one “or” the other often leads to being neither. Google “management skills” and “leadership skills” and you are likely to see various sources displaying skills assigned primarily, even exclusively, to each role. Take a look at…
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D.I.Y. Decision-Making
Have you ever assembled something from IKEA? You grab the Allen wrench, lay out the instructions and begin. Then, voila! YOU did it! You are so proud of it, even if the bottom drawer needs to be wiggled to shut. Still, it’s beautiful. Damn, you’re good. At work, have you ever completed a project? You assemble…
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A leader’s job is simple, just not easy.
The summer of my sophomore year in high school I had a job at RCA Rubber in Akron, Ohio, where my Dad was the controller. My boss was Miss Phelps, the finance manager, a small, trim woman who always wore a jacket or sweater even in summer when the heat from the rubber plant below…
Read MoreThese times are our times
I’ve been trying to write a super-duper, kick-off-the-year message that would inspire you in your quest to make your unique contribution and be your best self at work and at home. I’ve been coming up blank. Writing something about the January-ness of it all – a new beginning, out with the old/in with the new,…
Read MoreLions and Tigers and Liars, Oh My!
We’ve been lying as long as we’ve had language. Research shows that a child’s ability to bend the truth is a developmental milestone, much like walking and talking. While our noses don’t grow like Pinocchio’s when we lie, research shows a person’s nose can “heat up” when they lie. Liars populate our literature (Gatsby; Lady…
Read MoreWalk your Talk … Vertically!!
When I tell people I’m taking an indoor climbing class at Pacific Edge, their “Good for you!” is usually followed quickly by “Why?” My Whys I have several whys. Every day, I ask leaders to commit to something without knowing how to do it and without a guarantee of success. I ask them to step…
Read MoreLearn to Interrupt (yourself, not others)
Before last month, if you would have asked me if I was a good listener, I would have quickly and assuredly said “Yes.” Now, my response is, “I’m learning to be a better one.” Why the change? I’ve been engaged in dialogues, the art of listening. Dialogue is the discipline of collective learning and inquiry.…
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