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Four Ways to Challenge Someone to Reach Their Potential
Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, famously said, “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”...
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How to Change Employee Behavior
It doesn’t take long in management before you find yourself trying to change someone’s behavior. If you’re lucky, it’s a small skill change. Often, though, you’re trying to encourage a larger,...
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Get The Buy-In You Need
In organizations, there’s an ever-present conversation about gaining buy-in. Most of the work in companies is done through influence rather than hierarchy due to corporate team-based structures,...
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Here’s How You Show Too Much Passion at Work
Passion should be a good thing. In an article in The Washington Post titled “How Cleaning The Office Coffee Pot Could Help Protect Your Job,” Jena McGregor discusses how employees who enthusiastically...
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Six Ways To Confidently Say “I Don’t Know”
The hardest three words to say aren’t I love you – they’re I don’t know. That’s the opinion of Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, authors of the behavioral economics bestseller Freakonomics. From...
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Why You Stay in a Job You Hate
The most popular articles on business sites are generally about finding a new job. It’s estimated that more than 70% of professionals are open to finding their next position. Yet for many people, the...
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Why Job Interviews are Like Flipping a Coin
Decades of research into the effectiveness of employment interviews has shown one consistent result: we are terrible at conducting them. Our ability to predict success from a typical unstructured job...
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How to Manage Conflict
If you’re a leader, you deal with conflict. It’s inevitable. Effectively managing conflict is imperative to generating trust and maintaining confidence. Leaders who avoid conflict, mishandle it, or...
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Four Reasons We Don’t Ask For What We Want
It’s December, that time when so many of us begin to ponder what we’d like to happen in the coming year — and how to go about getting it. Most people have a hard time asking for what they want...
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Competition At Work: Positive or Positively Awful?
Recently, I was engaged in two separate discussions in which leaders touted the benefits of competition in the workplace. In one conversation, the leader expressed that he was hopeful that the natural...
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