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Notes on organizational health
Practical writing on leadership teams, clarity, and the habits that make health durable — drawn from twenty years in the room with executive teams.
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Dreading That Hard Conversation? Take These Seven Simple Steps
Someone on your team is struggling and you’re dreading the necessary, but hard conversation. You care about them and want to handle this with dignity and respect. Here’s what to do. Assume the best,…
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Why your leadership team keeps having the same meeting
The problem is rarely the agenda. It’s that the team never resolved the thing underneath it — and no amount of process…
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The Expanded TSA Rule: If You See Something (in a meeting…)
Thoughts from the Field (February 2024) by Neil Sullivan Thirty-five thousand miles…10 days last month. That is a lot of miles, a…
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How to Assimilate a New Leader
by Keith Hadley New Leader Assimilation We fully expect new leaders to succeed. Their credentials, history and personality all speak to their…
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Mindset Shift on Accountability
by Keith Hadley Thoughts from the Field (August 2023). Leaders of truly healthy organizations learn to simply think differently — and it…
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When Team Members Don’t Get Along
Guest Post By Andrew Moore This month’s Thoughts from the Field (July 2023) is written by my colleague Andrew Moore (Brisbane, Queensland,…
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COMMUNICATING YOUR ORGANIZATION’S CLARITY … EVEN IF YOU DON’T FIND ALL OF IT PERSONALLY MOTIVATING
Guest Post By Joe Kay This month’s Thoughts from the Field (May 2023) is written by my colleague Joe Kay (Berkshire, United…
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Five Must-Have Conversations When Launching A Team
Leaders create teams with the highest of hopes, but often fail to set them up for success. This leads to unnecessary frustration,…
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I Went To A Leadership Meeting And … a hockey game broke out
Guest Post by Gordon Blocker I’m eager to share this article with you by my good friend and colleague, Gordon Blocker (Little…
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Meetings, Bloody Meetings: SEVEN CS FOR SMOOTH SAILING IN STRATEGIC MEETINGS
GUEST POST by Sandra Palmer This month’s Thoughts from the Field (February, 2023) is written by Sandra Palmer, my colleague in Sarasota,…
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At Our Best – Leading in Crisis
Bringing this idea back from the days of the early Pandemic … seeing this now through the lens of the current fear,…
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