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How to Complain like a Champion

By Camille Smith / April 17, 2013

Many of our daily conversations are filled with complaints.   At work, our complaints sound like … “Bill’s cluttered workspace drives me nuts!”, “I wish Mary would stand up for herself, she makes all us women look bad.”, “The boss never says anything to the Sales guy when he’s late to meetings, but he call me…

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Bring in the New Year with a big enough WHY?

By Camille Smith / December 29, 2011

Ah, the end is near — of the year, that is. A time when we look back and reflect on all that has and hasn’t happened. For the resolutions we achieved, we’ll cheer wildly and thank our lucky stars. For the ones we didn’t, we’ll lament the loss and profess how hard we tried. As…

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Mid-Air Diasaster Avoided: Values Win Over Litigation

By Camille Smith / December 20, 2010

Do you know how your values shape your performance? In this story my client gave me permission to share, you’ll hear how his values and his commitment to honor his word guided him. Here’s his story… On an international flight from China, the captain’s voice woke us: “Will the doctors on board please press their…

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Want to make better decisions? Learn to balance.

By Camille Smith / November 16, 2010

Being successful requires making the right decisions at the right time. By “right”, I mean those decisions that effectively move us toward our goals. If you’re like many of us faced with making a critical business decision —who to hire or fire, what product or service to launch or dump, what deal to sign or…

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Is not saying something a lie?

By Camille Smith / June 9, 2010

What do you say? Yes? No? It depends? This statement screamed from an ad in the September issue of Fast Company (www.fastcompany.com). I ripped it out (love ripping and tearing) and marked it with a “B” (code for a blog topic). (The pages of my books are peppered with these breadcrumbs as I follow my…

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What is an Organization?

By Camille Smith / May 24, 2010

Remove people from headquarters and what do you have? Cubicles, no culture. We don’t mistake a vacant office for an organization, but we often misidentify what constitutes an organization and this thing called “culture”.  If we want to change our organization, it helps to know where it lives. Flashback: When Christopher Columbus and his crew…

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