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Book Review: Awaken, Align, Accelerate by MDA Leadership
Awaken, Align, Accelerate (2011) is a leadership development and coaching guide from MDA Leadership Consulting. The book harnesses “the...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Dec 1, 2017
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The Many Benefits of Coaching Employees
“Coaching is helping another person reach higher levels of effectiveness by creating a dialogue that leads to awareness and action.”...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Aug 13, 2017
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Book Review: The Leadership Challenge, 6th Edition
[Note: This post was updated July 2020 for freshness & clarity.] “The notion that there are only a few great people who can lead others...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jul 2, 2017
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Hire Conscientious People
[Note: This post was updated July 2022 for freshness & clarity.] In the book, The Truth About Managing People, professor Stephen P....
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Apr 3, 2017
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How To Manage A Team That Keeps Growing
Athletics carrying a crew canoe over heads | Credit: Clerkenwell I was contacted by a freelance writer working on a blog post for the...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Mar 7, 2017
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Reasons Why People Resist or Support Organizational Change
“Change can generate deep resistance in people and in organizations, thus making it difficult, if not impossible, to implement...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 1, 2017
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Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)
Much of the original research on Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) came from the field of sociology. Two sociologists from University...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jan 4, 2017
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To Deceive Using Truthful Statements is Called Paltering
Deceiving Others By Using the Truth Paltering is “an active form of deception that involves the use of truthful statements to convey a...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Dec 18, 2016
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Characteristics of a Team and Barriers to Effective Team Functioning
Before delving into the barriers of an effective team, you must first understand the difference between a team and a group: “The...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Dec 3, 2016
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Don’t Waste Time Trying To Discredit Others
Whether in my personal or professional life, when I observe myself and others around me, one of the biggest personal and professional...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Oct 12, 2016
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Book Review: Leaders Ready Now
NOTE: For this book review, I intentionally and excessively quoted the authors throughout the post. I do this for two reasons: (1) I...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Aug 22, 2016
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Giving Feedback Is Easy, Much Harder to Accept, Learn From, and Apply It
About 15 years ago, I was enrolled in a counseling psychology Master’s program. It was quite good and I learned a lot back then and...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Apr 13, 2016
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Don’t Have to Put Others Down To Feel Better About Ourselves
[Note: This post was updated July 2020 for freshness & clarity.] One consistent and recurring theme keeps appearing over and over again...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jan 1, 2016
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Talking Too Much and Not Listening
In a previous life and time, I worked as a mental health counselor. I was trained in the art of listening and would periodically have my...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Sep 10, 2015
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The Pitfalls of Telecommuting
[NOTE: This post was updated July 2024] I was contacted by a TV Producer at BBC News regarding my thoughts about the pitfalls of working...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Aug 22, 2015
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Stop Telling People You’re a “Thought Leader” Because You’re Not
Is Thought Leadership Old Wine In New Bottles? There are certain words/phrases that irk me to no end — thought leader or thought...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Jun 1, 2015
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In Chinese: Crisis Does NOT Mean Danger and Opportunity
[NOTE: This post was updated January 2017] JFK was wrong. On pinyin.info, a website about the Chinese language, Victor H. Mair, a...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Aug 10, 2014
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Locus of Control and The Zorro Circle
In his book, The Happiness Advantage, author Shawn Achor talks about how by first limiting our focus on small, manageable goals, we can...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 23, 2014
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Book Review: Scaling Up Excellence
As owner of the WorkplacePsychology.Net website (it's now defunct and is part of SteveNguyenPhd.com/blog), which continues to get a high...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Feb 9, 2014
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Can Apple Remain Innovative Without Their Visionary Leader?
In January 2009, Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “No American CEO is more intimately identified with his company’s...
Steve Nguyen, PhD
Sep 18, 2013
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