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Does Your Life Need a Digital Detox?
Like any hashtag or social media movement with its incessant buzzwords, one can’t help but keep hearing about the idea of device or digital “detoxing.” As if cleanses laced with cayenne aren’t enough, now we have to take a long hard look at our digital behaviors. And...
Leadership Communication Drives Organizational Transformation – Guest Blogger Robert Ford
It often seems there is an invisible rubber band tethering a person to their past, to what we know to be safe and familiar. If you have studied Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs or think about your own experiences, you will recognize this human trait. For purposes of this...
5 Non-Traditional Productivity Tips for Your Busiest Work Weeks
Being productive is crucial every day — but especially on your busiest weeks. You need to perform at your best to hit deadlines, but distractions and time-consuming tasks can keep you from doing that. Luckily, you can avoid those productivity blockers with these...
How Construction Companies Can Bolster Their Marketing Efforts
Many construction companies who market their services throughout the industry generally make three promises – they work safely, on time and on budget. But if everyone is claiming the same strengths, how can anyone tell different companies apart? The answer, is through...
Your Employment Engagement Survey is Destroying Your Company’s Culture
It only takes one engagement survey to destroy the company culture you’ve worked years to create.I’ve seen this pattern happen at too many organizations–including ones where I’ve been on the payroll. Leadership sets out with the best intentions: to increase happiness,...
Designing with Resilience to Prepare for a Changing World
Design and planning experts gathered on campus to take up the challenge of preparing for climate change. No doubt, the climate is changing. Yet uncertainty lies in predicting precisely how those changes will affect individual communities, cities, and natural...
How to Identify Great Scalers
People who excel at scaling businesses are defined by a unique set of traits and behaviors.Sustainable, profitable growth requires more than innovation; it requires business building. Most large incumbent companies have lost the ability to build new businesses. They...
Is the Problem Incompetence or Lack of Training?
One of the common complaints you’ll see today is executives saying how there isn’t enough talent out there, not enough people with the right skills or even the willingness to learn. They say that people -- almost always “young people” -- are too eager to jump...
Where do you start when a team is broken?
One of my friends just took over a new team and found… far more of a situation than she was expecting. She faced a choice: commit to the turnaround, or switch to something that seems like a better bet. Read More