Collaborative Management Image by Bernd Hildebrandt from Pixabay “Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” ― Patrick Lencioni Working well with others is one key to success. I was straight out of Engineering school. I landed a job with a Fortune 500 aerospace company. …
Vindictive Leadership Image by Noupload from Pixabay Once you notify your boss you have a new job, you must leave. No back zees. “You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this …
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Dark Tales Image by Merio from Pixabay “I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.” — Bill Dana I want you near me, but this is ridiculous. Why does my cat poo when I do? Whenever I go to the bathroom, one of my cats follows …
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Differential Leadership “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” Franklin D. Roosevelt Image by Paul Sprengers from Pixabay If you are following the rules, written or unwritten, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do what everyone else is doing. The bosses may …
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What I Learned Playing with a Child Image by Tomasz Mikołajczyk from Pixabay While playing Barbies with my four-year-old granddaughter I learned that today’s Barbies are no joke. When I was a child, I played with Barbies. My Barbies rode around in a pink car, lived in a Dream castle, and had plenty of tea parties with …
Unusual Beauty Source: The Author “I like big butts and I cannot lie You other brothers can’t deny That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist And a round thing in your face You get sprung.” — Sir Mix-A-Lot My spouse and I were sitting around, people watching when the butt I have always wanted all my life walked …
WTF Management Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay When your boss’s unhealthy actions are putting your team’s success in danger, you must address that behavior. WTF? I walked into my new office. I had taken a job as a Senior Director at a large aerospace company. The staff of eight business unit managers reported directly to …
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One and Done Image by Alina Kuptsova from Pixabay Ok, team. What are you trying to tell me with one clap? I suck? You didn’t like the article? Do I need to reconsider my chosen profession as a writer? Look. If you don’t like my writing, I understand. I admit I write about whatever strikes my fancy. …
Merciless Leadership Image by joseph_Berardi from Pixabay “When it’s time to let someone go, do it right. No surprises. No humiliation.” — Jack Welch Being the leader of a hundred-million-dollar organization is no joke. Part of the leader’s job, especially when business is not going well, is to reduce expenses, to make cuts. Those cuts include reducing the size …
Rebellious Love Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” — Sophia Loren To guarantee total control, my boyfriend needed power over the only other human I loved as much as him: my …
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