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Hot Topic Friday: June 26

Happy Friday! Here are my June 26 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about how it sucks to get laid off, but also discuss the importance of investing in resilience, and how to do so.

Asking For Your Kind Support and Help

Many people have asked for my personal guidance on how to build an exceptional culture. In response, the Lorne Rubis team has created an online course called Building Extraordinary and Adaptive Cultures.

Chief Mistake Officer to the End!

I’ve taken on the informal title of Chief Mistake Officer as I conclude formal employment in my career. I have lots more to do in my life, God willing. However, in my 70th year, I am concluding receiving a paycheck from any organization that’s not my own.

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Hot Topic Friday: June 19

Happy Friday! Here are my June 19 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking a lot about the benefits from working from anywhere. We mean it. Anywhere!

Paradox and Tightrope Leadership

As I reflect on the current desperate need for courageous leadership in both the public and private sectors, paradox balancing must lead the way.

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Hot Topic Friday: June 12

Happy Friday! Here are my June 12 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about being allies at work (and everywhere), having tough conversations, and also building an extraordinary and adaptive culture.

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Morley, You Can’t Hug Me Right Now

Harriet was so excited because she returns to school on June 9. When I asked her about Morley, her response was: ''I have to tell Morley that he can’t hug me right now because of the virus.”

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Hot Topic Friday: June 5

Here are my June 5 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week, we’re reading and reflecting out of respect for the pain and suffering relative to racism.

Belonging at the Time of Leaving

So what if we changed our approach to these exits so that they become way more dignified than they often are now? (This excludes people who have been egregious in harming others).

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Hot Topic Friday: May 29

Happy Friday! Here are my May 29 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about John Maxwell, Great (not perfect) Leadership, and remembering those who have been there for you. We also discuss the WW (formerly Weight Watchers) foul up while mass firing, and what we can learn from it.

1,000+ Brilliant People Leading the Transformation

This is real commitment by the leadership and 1,000 people are NOT waiting for the mysterious “THEY” to lead the transformation. It is NOT an event, compliance training or a marketing campaign.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMay 26, 2020Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, leadership, culture, purpose, WFA, work from anywhere, values, waiting, Transformation, NorQuestComment

Hot Topic Friday: May 22

Happy Friday! Here are my May 22 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about how being funny is good business, and how vulnerability as a leader is a great pathway to better success.

Finding an Unexpected Gift and B Sides in This

I hope all of you have come to appreciate some of the side benefits of sheltering in; home dinners, family puzzles or board games, learning how to Zoom, walks together, binging Netflix, petty arguments and maybe even louder ones, making up, asking for forgiveness, forgiving, more hugs, and just time together with all of its bumpy humanness.

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Hot Topic Friday: May 15

Happy Friday! Here are my May 15 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Quibi’s leader blames his blunder on the virus, and some helpful predictions for the future.

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'Waiting to See' Can Get You Fired

People who take a “wait and see” attitude are a drag on the organization's ability to refresh or reinvent itself. Frankly, I think “wait and see’ers” should leave if all they have to offer is passive judgment.

Personal LeadershipGarrett RubisMay 12, 2020Culture, Focus, Goals, Leadership, Learning, Lessons, Success, leadership, culture, purpose, WFA, work from anywhere, values, wait and see, waiting, red tapeComment

Hot Topic Friday: May 8

Happy Friday! Here are my May 8 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. There is a right way to conduct layoffs, Airbnb is a great example. And wouldn’t you know it? Great cultures do better during crisis.

What is Efficacy and Why Does it Matter?

One's sense of self-efficacy can play a major role in how one approaches life’s many challenges.

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Hot Topic Friday: May 1

Happy Friday! Here are my May 1 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Is Zoom and video conferencing truly bad for us? And we talk about big, bad, billionaire Bill Gates.

Building an Intentional Culture Requires an Investment in Conviction

Does your leadership have the courage to commit to something like this? Frankly, I doubt it. Most CEOs don’t have a clue how to lead a cultural transformation or acceleration.

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