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Navigating Being in the Middle: How Middle Management is Having an Impact

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After countless hours of conversations with MBA students about moral and ethical leadership, what emerges is a strong, consistent cadre of unsung heroes in middle management who push their teams and organizations to seek principled decision-making and choose the right thing over what is simply the most expedient. – Brooke Vuckovic Leaders can feel the […]

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An Item to Add to Your Gratitude List: Diversity

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“Experiencing the full expression of employees’ and colleagues’ identities affords us innumerable advantages, from personal fulfillment to organizational profitability.” – La’Wana Harris A leader shared with me how he saw an increase in innovation and morale in his team. This decreased the time they had to be in meetings because communication within the team improved. As a

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Communication Essentials: Steps to Engaging in Conversation

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“When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions start to run strong, casual conversations become crucial. Ironically, the more crucial the conversation, the less likely we are to handle it well. The consequences of either avoiding or fouling up crucial conversations can be severe. When we fail a crucial conversation, every aspect of our lives

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Communication Essentials: Assessing the Relationship Dynamics

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“To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue. All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord.” – Proverbs 16:1-2 “I just don’t know what to do. I’ve tried getting this person to work with me, but they

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Don’t ‘Just Do It’: Understanding Transformational Cultural Practices

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“Accountability is the responsibility of completing a task or achieving a goal. Ownership is about setting a high bar for oneself.” – Gustavo Razzetti As individuals and organizations, we have practices that we apply daily to create momentum to improve something. The Oxford Dictionary defines practice as “carrying out or performing (a particular activity, method,

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The Path of Pain to Hope in Leadership and Life: Part II

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein In the quote above, Albert Einstein says, “…hope for tomorrow.” What are you hoping for? Hope speaks to the deepest part of who we are. It is what keeps us going. As a child, we

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The Path of Pain to Hope in Leadership and Life: Part I

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“Growth equals change; change equals loss; loss equals pain; so inevitably, growth equals pain.” ― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth Leaders see the potential for something better and within that is hope. People join towards a new potential because of the motivation for something more. We enjoy stories because they inspire us

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