Hot Topic Friday: March 6

Happy Friday! Here are my March 6 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about the difference between worry, stress and anxiety (and what we can do about it), as well as the one trait that seemingly all unhappy people share. Do you have it too?

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Examples of the 10 Elements of Adaptive Cultures at Work!

The 10 Elements of Adaptive Cultures. As promised in previous blogs, I will from time to time share with all you how we are implementing the framework. The following is a summary for just a few things we are doing:

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Hot Topic Friday: Feb. 28

Happy Friday! Here are my Feb. 28 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about David Ayres’ journey from Zamboni driver to goal tender, as well as introduce you to the story of Donald Lee. Here’s how I think they both can have a big motivational impact on us all.

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Celebrating the Ups & Riding Out the Downs

I could go on with many highs and lows over a 40-plus year career cruise. An honest reflection would map a road trip with ample amounts of both “flat tire” causing pot-holes, and incredible vistas. Here’s my way of how to best traverse the journey.

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Hot Topic Friday: Feb. 21

Happy Friday! Here are my Feb. 21 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about the expression of genuine positivity in the workplace, and how getting to know ourselves is not easy. Then, learn about how being “indistractable” at work is considered today’s super power.

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Hot Topic Friday: Feb. 14

Happy Valentines Day Friday! Here are my Feb. 14 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about the importance of deep listening (or the lack there of), and how that impacts our teams and results, as well as the crucial demand for finding the WHY over just financial gain in today’s organizations.

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Hot Topic Friday: Jan. 31

Happy Friday! Here are my Jan. 31 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about how leaders, investors and workers should approach burning out, and the benefit of writing a letter to yourself every 10 years.

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Hot Topic Friday: Jan. 24

Happy Friday! Here are my Jan. 24 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about if we can truly bring our authentic self to work, and how to navigate the inevitable curveballs that will impact our personal and professional plans.

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The Culture Power of Circle Conversations

We always discover a number of things about each cohort: How human, fragile, courageous, adventurous, resilient, talented and personally adaptive they can be. Collectively, they are already extraordinary. Here’s how we do this.

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Hot Topic Friday: Jan. 17

Happy Friday! Here are my Jan. 17 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week, do you think we can be happy in 2020? Also, as leaders, let’s talk about dealing/helping with depression at work.

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Culture of Love in a Violent Game!

Here’s how the Seattle Seahawks and coach Pete Carroll inspires people to compete to develop personal and team greatness, rather than focusing on the narrow, ever elusive short term view of simply beating the competition each week. Much of the focus is on both personal and organization purpose and meaning. We have lots to learn from coaches like Carroll.

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Hot Topic Friday: Jan. 10

Happy Friday! Here are my Jan. 10 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re discussing helpful ways we can stop being “sick and tired of being sick and tired” in 2020, as well as analyzing another article on the simplicity of organizational culture.

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Is 2020 the Year the WFA Culture Explodes?

Happy New Year everyone! More importantly, happy new decade! It’s 2020, and every organization needs to actively promote the Work From Anywhere (WFA) Culture.

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Free Holiday Gift: 20 Culture and Leadership Maxims (illustrated) E-Book

Please enjoy it, share it, stuff it in a few stockings if you’d like, and we hope it can become an extremely useful reference to all of you in a very happy New Year! Here’s to 2020, a new decade, and 20 Culture and Leadership Maxims.

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Plan to Deliver a ‘WOW’ Performance in 2020

As I reflect on my 40-plus year career, I recognize the difference between the few WOW performers and frankly, the many average transactors. So, if you want to be more of a WOW employee, here are some steps you can take.

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