One of my favorite pieces of career advice to give people goes something like this: Think of your career as a sailboat. You can let…
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Announcement: People-Focused Newsletter
It has been two and a half years since we published the book Leadership Is About People. People have bought it and read it and…
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Renew
Don’t wait for retirement for your renewal!
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Art of Acknowledging
When teammates approach you with a concern, how do you react? Do you listen? Do you acknowledge? Do you dismiss or say things to diminish…
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Categories of Workplace Funk
Recently we asked the question, “Why is everyone so stressed?” and didn’t really answer that question. We ignored why and jumped to reminding you, the…
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Why is everyone so stressed?
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. -Bertrand Russell Humans have needs that aren’t…
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Focusing on the Goal
From an email I wrote to a team lead… This is very important. “What is the Goal?” That question is your antidote…
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Optimism in Project Management
An old joke about optimism: someone jumps from a 50 story building, and during his fall someone on the 25th floor asks him how it’s…
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Change
If you are a team leader and you want your team to try a new way of doing things, then you are probably going to…
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Projects and Success: The Importance of the Human Aspects
I define project success as achieving the project goal. Once you really understand your goal, then success is achieved by leading your project team to…
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