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No One Wants to Admit Burnout
A brief summer break turned into an 8-week "reset" when I noticed that my mind was filled with radio static. The normal flurry of creative pursuits and ideas had been replaced by a sort of numbness. I...
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Dream, Intentions, Goals and Plans
This is a little story about turning dreams in to reality.
"Make your dreams come true." We've all heard it, but adults know there's a vast gap between daydreaming and manifesting, not to mention tha...
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Radical Ownership
Some days I feel powerless. It usually starts with a trigger.
My manager uses “that tone.” My kids “overlook” their home chores. My direct report hasn’t completed the task that I thought was a given....
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5 Silent Culture Killers
Let’s face it. Leading is HARD.Â
I don’t know a single leader who would ever intentionally destroy, derail or create a dysfunctional team or compromise their culture. But I do (unfortunately) see man...
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5 Powerful Team Rituals to Boost Success
What makes a team feel connected, purposeful, and unstoppable? For some, the answer lies in the predictable power of rituals. Let’s explore how rituals shape success by comparing two teams.
The Strug...
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Don't Sell Yourself Short
I LOVE harmony. Give me joy, harmony, peace, and love any day of the week! But over time, I’ve come to learn that there is a high-cost to side-stepping the hard conversations, difficult emotions and t...
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Confessions from a Conflict-Avoider
It’s true. I’m conflict avoidant.  To be more accurate, I adapt my response to the situation, but I gravitate toward avoiding the conflict or accommodating the other person when emotions (especially a...
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Are you like an H or like an A?
Honestly—before I really understood the dynamics of trust, I would get caught up and waste SO MUCH TIME, EFFORT and ENERGY doing the WRONG things to try to fix the problems. Looking back, it was reall...
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Did you hear about Ann?
 “Did you hear about Ann? I heard that she didn’t turn in her project, AGAIN, and made some lame excuse for why she couldn’t get it done.”
THISÂ was the juicy gossip that changed the way I reacted to ...
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Pandemnesia (Pan-dem-NEE-zhuh)
I made up the word PANDEMNESIA to describe the condition of having forgotten what life was like prior to the pandemic.  Every week, as I spend time with leaders and teams from different organizations—...
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