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When you are working for someone - a client, boss or your employees, even - you have a deal, whether spoken or unspoken. There is mutual expectation on what you can and will deliver. I don't like being in low trust relationships. They are fraught with stress and unrealistic outlooks.
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Using Twitter can make you smarter. Yes, it can also make you dumber if you just waste time tweeting about a bunch of nothing. I had already posted about a way to use Twitter that makes it fun and relevant. Read that article to see how to capture your thoughts
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It can feel like a good leadership move to sympathize with the problems of your employees or workers. We all get to see that same storyline of sympathy play out in a show like Undercover Boss where the detached executive experiences the difficulties on the front lines. That is designed
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You've probably noticed the tension and unwhole feeling inside yourself from indecision and not committing fully. It's the cause of poor execution for many business people. I think so much is coming at us and many times, we are just overwhelmed. It's why being
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It's hard to get clear. When you think of all the exchanges with calls, meetings, emails and overall communications we have each day--we do those things to create meaning and drive clarity. Clarity is high value. Because when we are clear, we can execute without inhibition. It
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It does take special people to make ideas happen. The hard part of innovating comes when you execute. For a long time, you don't have rewards or feedback that tell you that your idea works. The effort and cost has a little bit of return. It's
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It's likely you have a Twitter account that was set up because everyone else was doing it. Or you may be active and interacting with the world of celebrities, locals and interesting people you find out there. It's a tool that can be used in so
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Too often emotion clouds our conversations in business. Sometimes, we think we are getting somewhere in a discussion with others, but in reality, there is just emotion being exchanged. And this can be ambiguous and dangerous. Feelings are important, but they can create a lot of unnecessary cycles when it
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If you are like me, you are being inundated with information on many different fronts. Email is our work. So are social media, text, calls, etc. It's not something to escape from, it's what you are responsible for. Information flows through you as part of the
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I'm sipping coffee this morning working and enjoying the view slopeside at Steamboat Springs. I have seen a lot of beginners from my suite taking some hard falls as they are learning how to turn and maneuver on their snowboards. I cringe when I see the hard ones.
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First and foremost, I want to wish you and yours a Happy New Year! I hope it's been a good one, and if it has been less than expected, I hope you're on an improving trajectory. I think that one of the great things of taking
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It's easy to miss the point of your work. It may not be that you have necessarily arrived or are pinned to doing the same work day in and day out. That's pretty absurd when you have access to the world at large in our connected