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Leadership Newsletter
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Last summer my son and his wife took on a major addition/renovation project at their home in Portland. I had observed the progress of the project from afar here in Anacortes, getting weekly progress reports, photos and so forth as events unfolded. The project was pretty large, involving the entire second floor of their home. They […]
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A slightly abbreviated version of this post was recently published in Smartblog on Leadership: True confession time. I once worked for a large, global conglomerate that was in a death spiral and struggling to turn things around. The company was harvesting its mature and declining business in order to pump cash into its growth bets. This […]
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Unfulfilled. Unhappy. Unsure. In a world where we’re all supposed to have postcard perfect lives, speaking many words that start with “U” have become the new “F” word. Equally taboo in some circles, “U” and “F,” yet one is so much more vulnerable. Maybe that’s why most people I know would rather shout f*ck from […]
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As expats we live in a secure compound with high walls, inside those walls we have grass, trees, flowers, beauty and order. Many local families live in their own high walled “compounds” with their extended families. And although I have never been behind those walls I have heard of their gardens. Outside of all of […]
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Finally! Someone wrote a great book about what I’m always talking about. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder’s new book, The Idea-Driven Organization should be read by all managers, executives and business owners. The authors start out stating that, “Most managers have difficulty believing that there is enough value in employee ideas to justify the effort […]
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One of the worst feelings a manager, executive or supervisor can experience is that dreadful sinking feeling that occurs when it is discovered that something bad you should have known about wasn’t conveyed to you in a timely and useful way. It could be a complaint from a customer that ended up in the press, […]
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