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Revitalize your Meetings: The Four Types of Meetings
When one of my sons was around three years old (he is 20 today), my wife caught him sitting on the counter and literally dropping eggs on the ground. He has more of an engineering mind and I suppose that he just wanted to observe what happens when you drop eggs on the...
Leadership is a Burden
While working with a group of leaders a few weeks ago, one leader remarked on the weight of responsibility she felt while leading her team. She was questioning whether it was a positive or negative that leadership felt like a heavy weight on her shoulders. Perhaps you...
How to Align your Team and Organization
A couple of summers ago, my wife and I went kayaking on the Harpeth River, a little river here in middle Tennessee. Shortly after casting off, we approached a small set of rapids. Since the water level was low, we risked scraping the bottom of the kayak on the rocks...
Not so Obvious Ways to Build Trust on Teams
I made a short list of some not so obvious methods that some of the leaders of teams I’ve been working with have successfully used recently to build trust on their teams. Here they are: They instigate uncomfortable conversations during team meetings, instead of...