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There’s no “I” in Leader, but there is towards the back of Leadership
A ship is in the simplest form a vessel larger than a boat for transporting people or goods. In reality though a ship is also much more complex and takes a team working both together and separately to ensure it operates correctly. Team members have specific functions or tasks perhaps, but a common goal or…
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March (Management) Madness – Playing/Planting Sixteen Seeds
As conference tournaments enter us into March Madness, I fondly remember high school playing days and endless hours balancing schoolwork, basketball, and watching the tournament. Pulled the picture from back in the day not just so you can see me dribbling through a zone press (pinnacle of being a point guard!), but also so you…
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Labels – Skating (or skiing in the East!) on thin ice….
For many reasons whether entirely valid at times, we tend to have a need to name or label things. Sometimes definitions of the labels are fairly concrete, sometimes intuitive, sometimes debatable, sometimes manipulated, and sometimes perhaps arcane. The photo from a few weeks ago on the mountain has three labels for the trail to be…
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Talkin’ ‘bout “our” generation
References are routinely made about generations. Some positive in reminiscence, some instructional for companies, teachers, or leaders (corporate and world) for how to reach, motivate or coexist, but many for comparison that focuses more on perceived negatives of one versus another. Many officially declared historians by Google, know of birth date ranges of generations being…
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