Appreciating Diversity and Differences Builds Effective Teams
One key to developing strong and effective teams is the ability to appreciate the benefits of the differences each team member presents. Those differences can confuse,...
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The Dirty Secret Of Workplace Diversity
Intellectually, it’s easy for us to promote the value of diversity in our organizations. We can endlessly proclaim epithets about the added benefit of a diverse and...
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Why Every Organization Needs Some Misfits
Over the past two months or so, I’ve been playing around a lot on Google Plus – more on that, and on our amazing mentor Elaine Lindsay, in an upcoming post. For now,...
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Millennials Really Are Different. Here’s Why…
I know, I know: every new generation to hit the workforce is special, dynamic, and above all, different! Every new generation has its own particular reasons for being...
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The Value of Meaningful Work
Meaning and meaningful work are not common words in the workplace lexicon. Unfortunately management practices have carefully neutered such needs in a diligent...
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A Leadership Agenda for 2013
What I love about a new year are the expectations and anticipation reserved for something new. We permit ourselves to mentally travel back in time and revisit...
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Tuning Our Strengths
My 16 year old son John is becoming quite an accomplished piano player. I love to hear him play, but I confess that I haven’t always felt this way. When he was...
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