Want To Break Through to the Next Level? Find a Coach.
Natural athletes seldom achieve greatness on their own. A good coach will add so much more to an athlete’s ultimate
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Human Resources
How to Stay Focused When Working from Home
I’ve discussed this topic before, but it bears repeating: it’s all about structuring your time and getting your head in
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Problem Solving Lifecycle
We all have problems. And I’m not talking about personal problems per se; let’s keep our discussion focused on business
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Do You Have Any Mediocre Employees?
What are you doing about it? We business owners like to think we are oh-so-special. We are the innovators, creative
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My Biggest Mistake as a New Manager
Early in my career I discovered I was good at sales. The more companies I saw, the more proposals I
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On Pickle Jars and Coffee
Do you remember the allegory about the professor at the head of the class – on the table, she has
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Unrealistic Expectations
Last week I talked about working with a perfectionist. This week I want to talk about another creature from the
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The Autonomous Collective
(This is not an article about the Borg. Although it might seem like it!) Several years ago, Google’s People Operations
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Working with a Perfectionist
What’s that old saying about engineers? It takes them two percent of their time to do 98 percent of a
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How to Motivate Your Team
I saw a statistic from a market research firm that stated that the majority of employees dislike the jobs they’re
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