The Mouse and My Cheezie Bag

It’s important to escape sometimes. To lose oneself into something like a great book, a long bike ride, or that drift into social media posts. However, sometimes that escape, if it’s overplayed, can blind us from being present and aware of our surroundings.

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Hot Topic Friday: July 17

Happy Friday! Here are my July 17 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about a culture that encourages hope, and the game of poker shows its cards from a different perspective.

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WTF? You Invite Me to Belong Then Ask Me to Leave?

Organizations and teams that are leading the way in terms of performance and engagement, are investing in belonging and psychological safety. At the same time, these groups are rapidly changing membership.

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Hot Topic Friday: July 10

Happy Friday! Here are my July 10 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about accepting anxiety, and how BELONGING helps business boom.

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Hot Topic Friday: July 3

Happy Friday! Here are my July 3 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re talking about the growing importance of positive culture in all workplaces.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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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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.

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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.

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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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