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Can You Trust the Voice Inside Your Head?
Is the narrator in your head giving you good advice? If not, it might be time to stop trusting it.
Connect the Dots for People
Create a story that connects the disparate lists in your organization so employees can use your strategies, goals, and values to make better decisions every day.
One Simple Way to Sound Smarter
If you want one way to sound smarter in your writing and presentations, clean up your lists. Poor grammar makes lists less clear and less compelling.
Dealing with the person who skips your meetings
Tips for what to do when an important stakeholder skips your meetings and complains about what you decide.
Should you pick your battles?
You tell yourself you’re picking your battles, but are you really just carrying a grudge? If so, you’re entering a downward spiral.
Recognizing Superpowers
Do you have a colleague that drives you nuts? Have you ever considered that the very behavior that is driving you to distraction is exactly what they were put in the organization to do? Can you appreciate the superpowers in your organization?
3 Questions to interrupt an emotional diatribe
What to do if a colleague is in the midst of an emotional outburst and you need to get the conversation back on track.
A View or a Veto?
Are you stalling your decision-making by giving too much power to stakeholders who should only have a view, rather than a veto?
Optimists, Skeptics, and Cynics
It’s easy to be attracted to optimistic thinking and turned off by cynicism, but both optimistic and cynical decision-making is lazy. Use this approach to improve the rigour of decision making in your business.
Envision What’s Possible
Are you adding value at the right level by envisioning a solution without designing or building it?
Is it Manipulative to Use Productive Conflict Techniques?
I’ve been asked whether or not my productive conflict techniques are manipulative. Here’s my answer.
Do You Have a First Team?
Patrick Lencioni’s notion of a first team solves some problems but it creates others. Here’s another way to think about your competing team priorities.