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Why “One Size Fits All” Decision Training Fails
There is value in teaching and training leaders to become more effective in areas like decision-making, communication, delegation, negotiation, strategic planning, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, and execution. Organizations need these things. Teams function better when leaders can slow down enough to evaluate options, regulate reactions, ask better questions, and avoid making decisions from pure panic…
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Daily Improvement Depends on Less Being More
My day started with errands. Not how I usually start my day but I decided to start there first because I needed to move a few items off of my list. I thought that I could start my day, once I returned to my office, except that I was mentally spent. So I took a…
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How Many Careers only Make Sense in Reverse?
For a long time, I genuinely thought there was something fundamentally wrong with the way my career unfolded. Not publicly, because outwardly I could explain each move well enough, but privately there was always this lingering sense that everyone else seemed to be building toward something while I appeared to be wandering through unrelated worlds…
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What Happens When Integrators Try to Live Inside Specialist Templates?
For a long time I thought my life made no sense on paper. If you lined up my work history the way a career counselor would, it looked scattered. Laboratory work. Sales. Marketing. Workshops. Systems thinking. Copywriting. Organizational behavior. Training. Consulting. Framework-building. None of it followed the clean arc we’re taught to admire. I kept…

