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New Leader Tuesday—The Feedback Series, Part 1: Moving Beyond Fear and Anxiety

Sep 24, 2013

Over the next few “New Leader Tuesday” posts, I will share ideas and approaches to help first-time or early career leaders navigate those initial feedback and performance discussions. The goal of the series is to help you get started with feedback early in your tenure, well-armed with good habits. Part 1 focuses on debunking the myths that keep so many managers from tackling these important discussions with their team members.

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Art of Managing—Always Be Building

Sep 11, 2013

Of the eight valuable leadership lessons shared in the HBR article, “Ferguson’s Forumla” (subscription or $), number 2, “Dare to Rebuild Your Team” is critically important and often bypassed in the workplace due to friction, tentativeness on the part of managers and HR groups and lack of vision and courage on the part of managers. Sadly, in too many cases, we allow a number of challenging but controllable impediments to get in our way of doing the right thing. These 4 are…

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Art of Managing—You Can’t Scale Bad People

Aug 28, 2013

There’s no formula, no strategy, no approach to building a great business that allows you to short circuit the need for great people. If you’re facing this issue, here are a few thoughts to help you get this equation for success right:

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Leadership Caffeine™—Surviving and Thriving Under Uncertainty

Aug 25, 2013

There are few attributes more valuable to leaders than the ability to stare uncertainty in the face and recognize it as a golden opportunity to shape and form the situation to their own and to their firm’s advantage. Here are 5 ideas to help you flip fear and uncertainty in the workplace upside down:

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New Leader Tuesday—Focus on the Fundamentals

Aug 20, 2013

The fundamentals of leadership never go out of style. Whether you are a first-time leader, an experienced professional taking over a new team or a senior leader who can use a little leadership pick-me-up, focusing on these five fundamentals will serve you and your teams well:

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Art of Managing—Balancing the Need for Speed AND Performance

Aug 18, 2013

With few exceptions that I’ve encountered, most senior leaders lose sleep over how fast their organizations and employees are moving. Their minds and mantras are: faster to change, faster to improve, faster to add new capabilities, faster to explore and develop competence in new markets and with new customer groups. However, at the same time senior leaders are looking for ways for their firms and teams to move faster, most employee groups and their managers are bogged down slogging through the reality of getting stuff done. Here are 3 ideas to help you and your team strengthen the balance between the need for speed and the need for performance:

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