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Karl Edwards asks, "Does it matter who is sitting in your chair?"
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I want to work. I want to work hard.

I want my work to be meaningful and rewarding. I want my work to charge me with as much energy as it requires from me.

I want to make a difference. I want to make a contribution. I want to play at the top of my game. I want to be fully engaged… and then some.

Why then am I ignored? Why then am I taken for granted? Why am I considered nothing more than the generic job description whose rote list of chores I am tasked to complete?

Why am I treated like the… Continue

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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