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If you’re bossy and you know it…
If you’ve been unplugged, you may have missed the recent hubbub around Sheryl Sandberg, Beyonce, and the Girl Scouts of America, who started a new campaign to encourage girls to be leaders by banning...
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Know Yourself
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.” Shakespeare –...
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Your Face Is Giving You Away
“Why, what’s the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?” Much Ado About Nothing “Are you ok?” This has become a rather common question my kids ask me....
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Are your clothes a distraction to your career?
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.” – John Ruskin Early in my career I had a boss who pulled me aside after a convention to tell me that a particular dress that I had worn...
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Why Stress Is A Good Thing
What if everything you’ve ever believed about stress were wrong? What if stress wasn’t bad for your health? Or, to REALLY step out on a limb, what if stress could be good for you? In the TED talk...
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Is This The Toughest Question to Ask?
I gave a talk recently and asked a couple of friends to watch the video and give me feedback. One friend had suggestions for how I could make cleaner transitions and which points felt like they...
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How Do You Give Effective Feedback?
Yesterday’s post about asking for feedback (“If you were me, what would you do differently?“) got me thinking, if asking for feedback is so important, isn’t it at least as important to GIVE effective...
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Overlooking an offense
Have you ever heard this saying? “A man’s wisdom gives him patience; it is to his glory to overlook an offense.” This ancient Proverb is one that I find more than a little challenging. I don’t know...
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Are you chasing imitations?
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.” Samuel Johnson Isn’t it ridiculous to live in a world of imitations? An African bullfrog isn’t exactly an...
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Help for the Micro-Manager
When I think about people who worry A LOT, one colleague of mine (let’s call him “Sam”) comes immediately to mind. He worries about anything and everything. Did I say the right thing? Is the team...
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The Curse of Perfectionism
“A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future.” Gen. George Patton Mark Zuckerberg deservedly gets a lot of credit for establishing a “Done...
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Fix your face
“She was not one for emptying her face of expression.” JD Salinger Have you ever walked through a large group of people and noticed how facial expressions reflect the mood of the crowd? At sporting...
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You may be the problem with your kid’s behavior
When the kids were small enough to ride in a shopping cart, the family went to Costco to buy oatmeal and paper-towels in bulk (why else do you go?). My daughter was riding in my cart when she spied one...
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You are in charge of you
My son can make loud, annoying sounds that drive my daughter into a tailspin. He knows when he makes these noises, his sister inevitably will move from a polite request (“Stop, please”) to a scream...
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A Light Touch
“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.” Brandon Sanderson I WON! I had just wrapped up a meeting where I had engaged...
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