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I just picked up a copy of Malcolm Gladwell's new book,

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It’s over. We’re done. No more.

Labor Day 2009. The day leaders stopped yelling.

Yelling as a “tool” for leaders is one of the great excuses and abuses that persists in the workplace.

It’s an excuse, because yelling is a cover for one’s own inability to either control one’s temper or come up with effective communication alternatives. While occasionally necessary to communicate seriousness, dissatisfaction, and/or anger about work-related dynamics, it is positively never necessary to use yelli… Continue

"Reality is always your friend," asserts Henry Cloud in this week's chapter.

Reality can feel like an enemy intruder, though, when it is difficult. Complicated. Painful. Embarrassing. When it means facing up to a mistake, starting over, making amends, reversing direction, etc.

Somewhere in all that mess—but not uncommon to such messes—some of us come to believe, maybe com

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Running on all cylinders.

What a great image. Fully engaged. Functioning as intended. No component sitting idle or causing problems.

So many of our images of success are lifeless, driven, stressed, remote models of the meta-competent hero who is somehow better at everything than everyone else.

Running on all cylinders is attractive, alive, and energetic. It is not necessarily connected with being in charge, on top, win

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Hearing stories of abusive corporate behavior infuriates me. Denying benefits after the fact. Groundless layoffs of older employees. Choosing business models that depend on substandard wages, and then blaming the employees for breaking the business when they request a living wage.

The world has no shortage of assholes in power who justify their destructive and inhuman decisions with short term, unverifiable claims to benefit the bottom-line.… Continue