For most of my life, through my late twenties, I was dancer. When I was about 14 I recall being in a dance class in which the teacher—she was my idol—asked us all to do a barrel turn. I had never done that jump and was […]
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Toxic High-Performers
What do you do about high-performing team members who are also problems for everyone else? They may be the best deal-maker, or the best at operations or an amazing engineer — but they upset their colleagues, refuse to cooperate or otherwise poison the workplace. Do you simply fire them, losing the benefit of their skills and knowledge? Or do you focus on trying to develop their people skills and empathy so they can stay on the team? And where do you even start in dealing with this issue?
Emotional Safety for Innovation Success
Having the emotional safety to fail is fundamental to fostering creativity and innovation.
Grow Leaders Not Order-Takers
As the leader of a fast growing team, you have to think about building the next crop of leaders. Plus, you simply can’t do it all!
Ah yes, DELEGATION.
You KNOW you shouldn’t micromanage. But, letting go feels SO risky!
In this short video […]
Less is More in Decision-Making Too
Everyone knows the challenge of shopping on line. It seems always to lead to an endless series of options, and the more you scroll the more they all begin looking the same. Paradoxically, while everything looks the same, each new variation seems even better than the last, and […]
Why Less REALLY Is More for Innovation
By now you probably have lots of amazing projects undwerway from doing all the work I shared during the first few weeks of 2019. But once you have those projects, at least one of them probably demands your best creativity to generate great solutions or approaches. But what […]
Video-Use Your Time to Fulfill Your 2019 Goals
In this third video in the series, we start to tackle how you can powerfully bridge from your 2019 vision to your daily activities. Some important basics like who should be in charge of your minutes, hours and days! This video will give you the beginning of a […]
Video: 5 Minutes to Bring Your 2019 Vision Into Your Reality
Since I’m still recuperating from shoulder surgery, the videos continue instead of typing.
In this short video we take the goals you created for 2019 and beging the process of putting them into action in your day to day reality. This is where the rubber meets the […]