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True, Kind, Necessary: Transforming Communication with Mindfulness

One of the benefits of mindfulness is, to paraphrase Viktor Frankl, the space it creates between...

Management Coaching Culture Boosts Employee Retention

Reduced stress, recognition, and humanity are better motivators than fear and might. The key is...

Communication Coach

A good communication coach must be a good communicator, and that involves understanding that...

I’ve Used This Boat Metaphor to Meet Challenges and Drive Growth for Teams

As I was coaching one of the project leaders last week, a quote by early 20th century author G. K....

3 Reasons for Taking Short Breaks from Email (and how to start)

So, the evidence is that we’d all love a break from email, but is there a positive case to be made...

The Power of Work-Place Rituals: Thriving and Changing Together

In an article in HBR “How Ritual Delivers Performance,” Paulo Guenzi offers some extraordinary...

A Key Practice for Ruling Your World (Part One)

What if I told you that there is one activity that can make you smarter, happier, healthier and...

Venn Diagrams: Answering the Foundational Question of How “Work” & “Life” Are Related

I’m not drawing diagrams for diagrams’ sake (although they are fun to look at regardless of what...

Does Your Work Depend On You Being Right? (WHAT ARE THOSE?!)

In our work — with clients, with colleagues, with tasks and projects — we are frequently confronted...

A Fun Exercise About Growth, Communication, Creativity And The Power Of Bricks

We’ll talk about: (1) How the exercise is setup, (2) what almost always happens with people as they...

LeBron James, Leadership And Investing In The Work Of Others

I love watching team basketball played by the best competitors in the world. I love watching five...

How We Started A New System Today

Today was not an easy day. Good things happened today, but it was not easy. Here’s the story: About...

The Role Of Forgiveness In High-Performance Culture

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the crucial role that paradox plays in high-performance culture....

The Connections That Keep Our Work Alive

Off-duty firefighter Scott Brawner was working out in a suburban Portland gym this Spring,...

Where Our Convictions And Ability To Listen Clash

Deep conviction can serve us well in our work, but there is a potential dark side.

Dog Ownership And Axioms Of Leadership That Will Grow Your Organization

In my early days of studying organizations, I started compiling a list of pithy observations about...

All this praise is turning me into a failure!

I want to go over a dynamite article I just read that has some great implications for how we work...

The Stories That Tell Us

Hi All! Steve Longan here. You might remember me from such blog posts as "The Thanksgiving Post"...

Please Pass the Candied Change - Er, I Mean, Yams

Editor’s note: This week, Steve Longan is going to sit in the blogger’s chair and give us a post...