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LinkedIn is a friendly environment within which I find my inspiration and community by keeping up with people’s activities. It keeps me feeling in touch and grateful even with COVID. I’m often amazed at the good works and contribution people find to do from their...
From the time I was competing for spelling bees I’ve been afraid of failing. Who isn’t afraid of something? Being the oldest of four children, I had plenty of opportunities to fail. I failed to keep my brother from hitting my sister, and when I called our parents to...
Trustworthiness requires being willing and able to be vulnerable. A dictionary definition would say that vulnerability is being susceptible to physical or emotional injury. In this case, it means emotional injury — being "available" emotionally such that you care...
Seeking the truth. Finding the truth. Facing the truth. Communicating the truth. It takes an extraordinary commitment to the truth to seek it and frankly not everyone is interested. Some people like their own version of reality just fine, thank you. It’s hard to make...
Remember this premise from Jim Collins in his book Good to Great? “When we began the research project, we expected to find that the first step in taking a company from good to great would be to set a new direction, a new vision and strategy for the company, and then...
How do you have conversations for employee accountability inside your organization? What if we could bring fun, play and ease to the conversations we have about being accountable? Being the oldest of four children, I was appointed the babysitter. It has taken me...
As team members, we like to be inspired, yet it doesn’t take much to uninspired us. What is NOT inspiring your team? He said/she said. When WIIFM (what’s in it for me) overtakes the common mission. The blame game. Responsibility without authority Authority without...
Can you admit it? It's okay, you are not alone. Many people resist collaboration with colleagues. I find my preference for collaboration increasing. We have so much to consider in business today, going it alone isn’t very wise! Collaborative accountability is...
You might ask, “What kind of candor are you talking about?” This could be a very long and winded blog post if we included all the times and ways in which you could choose candor over hiding, lying, leaving or some other way to avoid telling the truth or expressing...