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Q: My team did all this personality testing… what do we do with it now?

September 24, 2008

If you want to get to the heart of your mental and emotional issues, see a shrink. If you want to learn, learn, learn, take a class, or at least make it a habit to read something every day.

If you’re working with a consultant or coach within a business context, you should be focused on one thing:

results.

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Advice for Up-and-Coming CIOs

September 17, 2008

Abstract: Link to a presentation on critical elements of a technology leadership career path.

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HR: Please stop intellectualizing everything!

September 12, 2008

Next to dealing with humans, even calculus seems easy… because once you figure out how to solve a math problem, that problem remains solved forever… whereas people are dynamic, ever-changing, and stubbornly beyond resolution.

What I can’t figure out then, is why our field is so fascinated with the idea of treating people-problems as things that can be solved by clever, but static, 4×4 matrices?

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Your problem is bigger than you realize

August 27, 2008

When we elevate the “values” of “fairness” and “niceness” above “quality” and “character,” we guarantee one thing: failure.

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“I couldn’t get a yes, and I couldn’t get a no.”

August 26, 2008

Abstract: Analysis of a culture of indecision.

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Corporate cowardice and its impact on loyalty

June 25, 2008

Drop the customer satisfaction/employee engagement survey crap and do the one thing that everyone around you wants you, the leader, to do: show some backbone. Have the courage to face the real issues, stop letting yourself being bullied into taking the expedient way out, stop refusing to admit your mistakes, and stop blaming others when you decide to cop out from making the tough call.

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Q: “Gimme one damn reason for staying past 5:01.”

May 25, 2008

Abstract: An “open letter” to Millennials about the “5pm problem.” Meant to be read by Millennials’ managers, too.

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