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		<title>Why Shared Values are not that Important to Corporate Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ted Bauer was nice to quote me in an article about corporate culture a few weeks ago. If you haven’t read or don’t follow Ted, check him out. He has interesting ideas on the state of organizational culture these days. The quote was: The idea of corporate culture has been hijacked by well-meaning people who don’t have  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why People Are Leaving is the Wrong Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let’s cut to the chase. The short answer to the question of why people are leaving your organization is because they want to, need to, and can. There are those who leave with no plan for what comes next. These people often feel the need to get away from an arrangement that is toxic or run toward  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Welcome to the Great Transition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2022 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions.” -William Bridges The Great Resignation, the Great Reset, the war in Ukraine, and even runaway inflation aren’t the entire story. There is an even bigger one, and it will affect every aspect of how you lead in the months and years to come. It  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What You Can Learn About Building a Championship Team from the NBA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  My client Jay Cadler at Veris Manufacturing has a saying, “Never resting. Always investing.” The National Basketball Association (NBA) Free Agency signing period is the ultimate example of that. The bell rings at 6:00 p.m. eastern on June 30, and every team enters the frenzy to lockup the players they want to keep and  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>All Leadership is Change Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Taxi companies could have created a ride scheduling and payment app. They didn’t. There are a number of reasons why it didn’t happen, but the biggest reason was reluctance to challenge the status quo. The same goes for a host of other companies. Blockbuster’s failure to proactively innovate—or even take the opportunity to purchase Netflix—is one of  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lead With Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2021 18:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hope, we’ve been told, is not a plan or strategy.  It is wishful thinking that cannot be measured. You can’t hold people accountable for failing to deliver on hope. Hope is, also, exactly what we need from leaders today. It is essential for navigating uncertainty and coping with high levels of stress. It is the  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Navigating the Messy Middle of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The world is in the messy middle of transformational change, and it sucks. The middle of every change – under the best of circumstances – can create anxiety, frustration, and insecurity. It feels like being stranded in the median of a busy highway with traffic speeding by in both directions. You can’t go back, and  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Your Team Needs Now is Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Even if the COVID-19 crisis has thrown your organization into crisis, you continue to feel its impact. The important lessons on maintaining connection, productivity, and engagement will continue for months and years. In the meantime, here is what your team needs from you today. Leaders operate at three levels: Individual leadership Interpersonal leadership Organizational leadership  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lessons About Your Culture from the Pandemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 22:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything you need to remember about your culture’s role in protecting and sustaining your organization can be learned from how viruses spread and grow. Admittedly, there is a risk in using this analogy. It can be too soon, too political, or too much COVID depending on your experience. Please hang in with me for a  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Leaders Earn the Power to Influence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2020 15:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and upheaval empower the voices of change, and a drumbeat for a new kind of leadership is emerging. By at least some indications, leaders are listening. A report released by McKinsey &amp; Company says that 78 percent of executives plan to change how their leaders lead on a day-to-day basis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is It Time to Totally Reinvent Your Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2020 21:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Disruption and change are everywhere, and you may be thinking that the old rules of business no longer apply. On top of that, the news media and at least one – and probably all – of the free virtual conferences you have attended over the past few months have fueled a growing fear that the  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Leader’s Work in a New Next World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your work as a leader – where you invest your energy and resources – must evolve and grow to ensure continued success in a world defined by uncertainty, upheaval, and change. This isn’t about your role, responsibility, or leadership style. The role and responsibility remain constant regardless of environment or circumstances: Influence the actions, outcomes,  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How do you lead remote workers during the COVID-19 crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 22:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One outcome of the COVID-19 virus is that more and more companies are asking people to work from home. We don’t know the exact number, but approximately 26 million people were working remotely before the COVID-19 crisis. That number has only increased … by a lot. Your new remote workforce is used to being in  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What will change after COVID-19?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2020 03:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’re now several weeks into an almost nation-wide shutdown of businesses classified as non-essential. People are still making sense of how to get through the present, and some companies and individuals have already transitioned to the future. I shared the four potential responses for using change as a strategic advantage in a video posted in  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Change Isn&#8217;t a Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The COVID-19 virus has forced everyone into a change that isn’t a choice. This piece about how to respond when change is out of your control is excerpted from Make Change Work (Wiley, 2013).   We all face change that is out of our control at some point. You can view it as a setback,  [...]]]></description>
		
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