Category: Leadership & Strategy
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Learning Beats Knowing
I was recently posed with the question: “Is it possible that we’re actually at our best when we know the very least? When we’re new…we are rookies.” For me, I’ve already outlined that I felt inadequate to blog because I entered a new career, a new area, a new…you get the point. Yet it’s in…
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Feedback
We typically think of feedback as binary: either good or bad. “Hey, great job today!” or “please step into my office.” Feedback is so much more. It’s my relationship to the world and the world’s relationship to me. These are the conversations that drive business growth. They drive people to get more out of their…
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Shame. Vulnerability. Openness.
I had the awesome pleasure of attending a conference where Brené Brown spoke (she’s a wonderful speaker, I first watched her on a TED talk). Speaking of shame, there’s almost a shame about talking about shame — as if anyone who acknowledges it will then be shamed as weak. Ironic? She is open and honest about shame,…
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New Perspectives
A professor told the following story: He’d been wearing this particular tie for many months — perhaps years — and one day he pulled out a different shirt, by necessity, put on his tie and headed out the door. When he got to the office he had not one, not two, but a number of people compliment the tie.…
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Abdicating Rank
Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, said something that’s still spinning my head. Ambition, not for ourselves, but something bigger. Something greater. Something meaningful. The disease of mediocrity and stagnant companies is ripe with self-ambition and the individual’s desire to grow their own career, rather than see the product/project/company mission to the end.…
Jeff Beaumont 