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Book Review: Community of Leaders by Vince Molinaro
Vince Molinaro's Community of Leaders (2024a) book is a follow-up to his previous book, Accountable Leaders (2020). In the last chapter...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jan 1
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Book Overview & Summary: Smart, Not Loud by Jessica Chen
Jessica Chen's book, "Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons" is fantastic! "The Quiet Culture bias is the...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Sep 20, 2024
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Being Negative and Complaining
"Two men look out the same prison bars: One sees mud and the other stars." -Frederick Langbridge It's very easy and so tempting to be...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jun 2, 2024
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Light A Fire Within Instead of Under Someone
The Cambridge Dictionary defines the saying, "light a fire under someone" in this manner: to make someone act quickly or forcefully,...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Apr 6, 2024
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Personal Integrity Is Being Congruent; Not Hedging, Not Sidestepping, Not Misleading
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." -Aesop In a 2015 Hallmark Christmas holiday movie called, "I'm Not Ready...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 5, 2024
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A Top Regret of the Dying - Wishing They Hadn't Worked So Hard
Bronnie Ware is an Australian woman who spent many years working in palliative care. Her patients were those who had returned home to...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jan 3, 2024
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The Value of Feedback
According to the book The Leadership Challenge, one of the things leaders can start doing to become better leaders is to ask people to...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Nov 9, 2023
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Don't Be Petty and Don't Delight in Other's Misery
Petty is an interesting word. The Collins Online Dictionary defines it as: mean or ungenerous in small or trifling things a petty person...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jul 4, 2023
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What it Means for a Leader to Take on "Extreme Ownership"
Photo: Jocko Willink (left) and Leif Babin (right) I've written before about "extreme ownership" and how passing the buck (i.e., blaming...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jun 4, 2023
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Good to Great to Gone
I was once part of a leadership development initiative (in 2019) that required partnering and collaborating with a third-party vendor,...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
May 2, 2023
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Book Review: The Leadership Challenge, 7th Edition
In this book review of The Leadership Challenge (7th ed.) by James (Jim) Kouzes and Barry Posner, I'll compare the 7th edition (2023) to...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Apr 9, 2023
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Don't Get Hooked on "Fake Work"
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Mar 7, 2023
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Don't Outsource Your Thinking
If there's one thing I've learned from attaining my Ph.D. it is this — don't outsource your thinking. As a society, we've become lazy,...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Dec 19, 2022
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Book Summary & Review: How to Be an Inclusive Leader (2nd ed.) by Jennifer Brown
SUMMARY Based on her many years of watching all types of individuals react to the issues surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, and...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Nov 18, 2022
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Values-Based Leadership
Professor Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management says a values-based leader aims to...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jul 1, 2022
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Book Review – LEAD NOW!: A Personal Leadership Coaching Guide for Results-Driven Leaders (2nd ed.)
“Leadership is a future-oriented ability to establish direction, align people, and help others to work together. We believe a leader is...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Dec 1, 2021
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How to Give Direct and Clear Feedback
From front-line leaders all the way up to C-suite leaders, I have seen, time and time again, how managers have made a mess in delivering...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 22, 2021
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Resilience Is Adapting Successfully to Adversity, Hardship, and Tragedy
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” -Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven Looking Back at...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Dec 30, 2020
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Blocked Personal Learners Don’t See Value in Self-Development
“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Oct 5, 2020
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Overcoming Obstacles: Attitude and Approach Are Answers to Pains and Problems
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”-William Shakespear In his book, The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Mar 17, 2020
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