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As the holiday season gears up, it’s easy to push yourself into 4th, 5th, even 6th gear. To speed up. Rush around. Frazzle yourself. When you do that – you miss the music. What is the music? It’s the...
View Article10 Ways to Overcome Organizational Dementia
My mother, Roslyn and my Aunt Sena had a falling out in 1968. They stopped speaking to each other. My mother died in 2006. They never reconciled. Sena’s in a nursing home near my house. Her memory is...
View ArticleWhat Are You Carrying?
A master and his student were walking by a river. They came upon a beautiful young woman who needed to cross over.?The master picked her up, carried her across the river, and put her down on dry...
View ArticleHow to end power struggles
True story: I was heading for a showdown. Having finished my speaking gig, I was lugging a heavy box of books and my arms ached. The guy coming down the hall the other way was coming straight for me...
View ArticleHow talking undermines goal setting
Every coin has two sides: a head and a tail. They can’t be separated. Wherever you find a head, there’s a tail. Every complete communication has two sides also: a listening side and a talking side. But...
View ArticleWhy it’s better to not know (than know)
During a past leadership program, a participant told the group, “You can never say ‘I don’t know’ to your team.” I asked, “What would happen if you did?” He said that if a leader admitted to not...
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