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October 18, 2017
Gut Check: Are You Truly Committed To Do What Is Necessary When Transforming Your Company?
It was time for Jonathan, the former COO of a large retailer, to reflect on what went wrong. Jonathan had been brought in to lead a broad transformation initiative. Change was the order of the day, largely because of an […]
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October 13, 2017
Gut Check: Are You Protecting a Poor Performer?
If there is anything that I’ve learned in my own career, it is that organizations cannot succeed without adhering to one fundamental principle – we can only achieve high performance when employees and leaders commit to being their best, in […]
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October 6, 2017
Gut Check: Are You an Intergenerational Leader?
It’s safe to say that hardly anyone saw this coming. A few weeks ago, data guru Josh Bersin posted on LinkedIn some interesting labour market statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The data showed that the […]
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September 29, 2017
Gut Check: What Are You Doing To Build Deep Connections At Work?
It may come as some surprise to you, but loneliness is fast becoming one of the most important health issues facing our society. Recently, Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, who served as Surgeon General of the United States from 2014 […]
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September 22, 2017
Gut Check: Do You Set A Powerful Example For Those You Lead?
Joe Biden has a message for all leaders. Our ability to lead is not based just on power, “but on the power of our example.” The former U.S. vice president used this observation in a pointed critique in the New […]
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September 15, 2017
Gut Check: Are You Stepping Up to the Great Expectations of Leadership?
When I first started working in the leadership industry, the great expectations of leadership only fell to the senior executives of a company. These leaders were under pressure to think strategically, steer organizational change, and execute all aspects of the […]
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September 8, 2017
Gut Check: Should You Stay Or Should You Go?
As many of you know, I am a big fan of regular self-assessment. In my last blog post, I asked readers to perform a mid-year gut check review of their leadership accomplishments. I find that the six-month marker in the […]
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June 30, 2017
Gut Check: Are You Ready For Your Mid-Year Leadership Gut Check?
The first six months of 2017 have essentially come to a close and now it’s time to pause and reflect on how the year has been going for you from a leadership accountability standpoint.
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June 23, 2017
Gut Check: Have You Succumbed To Hubris?
I’ve always loved reading the ancient writings of Greek mythology. The stories have always fascinated me because they spoke so eloquently about the human condition of the time.
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June 16, 2017
Gut Check: Can You Avoid A Downward Spiral?
The term ‘downward spiral’ seems to be all the rage. It’s understandable given what’s going on in the world these days. I did a quick search of the Web this past week and found numerous stories where downward spiral – […]
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