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Why Are Good People Losing Their Jobs?
I must start this post acknowledging that I have not written to my group of leaders in awhile. Why? I lost my mojo for encouraging leaders to show up and demonstrate your ability to collaborate and communicate with passion. I have spent a 30 year career encouraging and supporting leaders who desire to demonstrate a [...]
The Benefits of Being Collaborative
‘Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Do you realize one of the best strategies to ensure you reach your career goals is to first collaborate with others to help them reach their goals ? I know. It probably seems counter-intuitive to expect that in this age of fast pace, ever changing [...]
Collaborative Leaders Respect the Need to Operate in the Unknown
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” — Niccolo Machiavelli It is no secret that today’s leaders are balancing a lot of balls. These balls can rightfully be named: [...]
How Collaboration Minimizes Vulnerability
“I understand now that the vulnerability I’ve always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can’t experience life without feeling life” Elizabeth Shue As a leader, have you ever experienced a situation where you recognized that taking the risk to reveal your thoughts to others could make you vulnerable to criticism? Yet, [...]
Mastering Collaboration: The Art of Inviting Others In
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” Theodore M. Hesburgh Striving to be more collaborative is hard work. What makes it so difficult is the requirement to involve others in order for an environment of collaboration to exist. When you work alone, you only have yourself to [...]
