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Leadership Caffeine™—Are You the Cause of Your Team’s Creativity Deficit? 

Leadership Caffeine™—Are You the Cause of Your Team’s Creativity Deficit? 

Nov 8, 2021

Creativity—the ability to look at complicated situations and identify novel solutions that solve problems, advance initiatives, or rewrite old rules—may be the most critical skill of all in our workplaces. As leaders, we need to foster it, stimulate it, and do everything we can to ensure we’re not the ones suppressing it. Sadly, creativity is something that many leaders trample all over in their daily activities. 

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The Great Capitulation: Here’s Why You’re Losing Too Many Good People

The Great Capitulation: Here’s Why You’re Losing Too Many Good People

Oct 18, 2021

Here’s a Fun-Fact from my Career Reinvent Boot Camp programs: 50% of participants would prefer to reinvent their careers (change what they do) without leaving your organization. Unfortunately, most of them end up leaving your firm. Here’s why and here are some ideas you can rethink your approach to career development in your organization:

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For Strategy Work, It Pays to Learn and Use the Right Tools

For Strategy Work, It Pays to Learn and Use the Right Tools

Sep 21, 2021

While we live and work in interesting times where traditional elongated planning processes no longer fit, leaders still have the responsibility to define a coherent strategy. Choosing the right tools for strategy work in today’s environment is critical for a successful process.

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Leadership Caffeine™—The Five Building Blocks of the Healthy Working Environment

Leadership Caffeine™—The Five Building Blocks of the Healthy Working Environment

Aug 8, 2021

It’s always bothered me that building a healthy working environment isn’t described in most managerial job descriptions. This is the most important work a manager can engage in to strengthen engagement and performance, yet working on the working environment is ignored in the daily rush for results. In this article, I offer ideas and approaches to help managers jump-start this critical work.

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Leadership Caffeine™—Rethinking Your Team’s Business Reviews and Operating Approach

Leadership Caffeine™—Rethinking Your Team’s Business Reviews and Operating Approach

Jul 25, 2021

While I’ve not attended your business review session, I can tell you with confidence born of experience that most of these events are painful time, productivity, and morale killers. And, in this world where COVID has taught us that quarters are like centuries and the world shifts in hours and days, I increasingly find the ubiquitous quarterly business reviews anachronistic. It’s time to change your team’s operating approach.

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