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We receive many words of wisdom and advice from our mentors and colleagues regarding how to find happiness in our...
It was a short flight from Greensboro NC to Chicago IL. In the seat next to me, the woman explained she was an internal auditor for a firm that specialized in process audits. She is a supervisor. She worked on her laptop all the way to Chicago. She told me...
It feels more true whenever you hear something repeated. In other words, repetition makes any statement seem more factual. So...
So how do we do become more influential by mimicking others? Imagine you’re stuck in the throes of a tense...
How to keep customers loyal by using handwritten thank you cards. When I started working for Ben Bridge Jeweler in 1998, one of the practices I learned as a new sales associate was that every month, I was to print out a list of all the customers who bought something...
Adam Grant sends a message to the world in his book ‘Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success.‘...
Simon Sinek was right when he said you should start with why. He was of course talking about how great...
Transformational leaders have been posited to impact an organization’s culture, structure, and strategy. These types of leaders manifest themselves as change catalysts who manipulate organizational factors with the aim of improving knowledge cycles. Organizational culture includes the three dimensions: Collaboration, Trust and Learning. Transformational leaders facilitate collaboration by using the...
How do you incentivize people to do a good job? How do you keep them motivated? It would be nice...
How to split equity among co-founders and business partners. “Let’s keep it simple,” said Merrily to her partner, Anson. “I...
Why do challenges and struggles make some people stronger and make others weaker? How is it that some teams/people come back from devastating defeats while others simply give up? What are the keys that unlock potential? These are the questions that former Navy SEAL Dennis McCormack and co-authors George Everly...
Most employees work hard and show up every day with good intent and admirable integrity. Despite modelling great values and...
How to build trust in a professional relationship through effective communication. Early in my professional (post-university) career, I was attending...
Creativity generally is believed to ebb and flow depending on various factors. Being creative is highly subjective, and different people are creative in different ways. Still, there are some habits people can indulge in to foster daily creativity. Most creatives have their repertoire of hobbies and activities that they engage...
Why communicating effectively and building relationships is still vital for success, even in the digital age. In a previous era,...
Developing your leadership potential and management skills: What comes to mind when you hear the word leader? Is it the...
There is a plethora of leadership theories and models that attempt to consider leadership as an enabler of firm performance. Recent studies have indicated that there is an increased emphasis on the important role of leaders, which could extend the literature and theories in this field (Anderson & The American Productivity...
The story of Maenads, and why you should not follow their footsteps to succeed in business and life. There are...
Is your work culture healthy? Do people treat each other with respect while pursuing the results needed? Most leaders have...
