Photo: Screenshots of Apple 1984 Super Bowl TV Commercial I have been in companies that operated with an extremely competitive culture...

According to Adrian Gostick, one of the main reasons for writing the book had to do with his (now) 25-year-old son, Anthony (Tony)...

I was contacted by a journalist writing a story about workplace communication, why human beings need human-to-human connection in the...

I’ve spent more than a decade working in three related and intersecting fields: Training, Learning & Development, and Leadership...

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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”-William Shakespear In his book, The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday...

[Note: This post was updated July 2024 for freshness & clarity.] In the book, Extreme Ownership, Leif Babin (a U.S. Navy SEAL officer who...

Overplanning is defined as planning excessively or in more detail than is necessary. No Amount of Planning Can Ever Replace Just Getting...

“Layoffs are mostly bad for companies, harmful for the economy, and devastating for employees.” -Newsweek (2010) In December 2017, I...

Many of us miss a key point about the importance of followership. Indeed, most people hold a negative view of followership (Kelley,...

One of the most popular coaching models in the world is the G.R.O.W. Model (Whitmore, 2017). GROW is one of the earliest (perhaps even...

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Awaken, Align, Accelerate (2011) is a leadership development and coaching guide from MDA Leadership Consulting. The book harnesses “the...

“Coaching is helping another person reach higher levels of effectiveness by creating a dialogue that leads to awareness and action.”...

[Note: This post was updated July 2020 for freshness & clarity.] “The notion that there are only a few great people who can lead others...

Athletics carrying a crew canoe over heads | Credit: Clerkenwell I was contacted by a freelance writer working on a blog post for the...

“Change can generate deep resistance in people and in organizations, thus making it difficult, if not impossible, to implement...

Much of the original research on Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) came from the field of sociology. Two sociologists from University...

Deceiving Others By Using the Truth Paltering is “an active form of deception that involves the use of truthful statements to convey a...

Before delving into the barriers of an effective team, you must first understand the difference between a team and a group: “The...