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To mentor someone can be daunting, more so when your mentee happens to be an experienced and laureate leader. Multiply your number of mentees by 15, add 45 minutes as your timebox, and consider the ever existing temptation of people multitasking during remote meetings, and you'll get "
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"Resilience is NOT about heroic postures or phony displays of machismo; it is about suffering failure, humiliation, and disappointment and having the strength to persist." Today we have resilience pro-tips from a leader I've learned a ton from. Meet Ed Wisniowski, a software development veteran and
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I don't believe Agile is dead. Here's why: There are companies out there, who thrive because they have embraced it. It's not because they wrote down stickies on a wall faster than the competition. It's because they have got it. They understood
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Write a little something on a regular basis. It doesn't need to be good. It doesn't need to be published. It's for you, to clear your head, to refine your voice, to let go. Do that and you'll start to notice positive
Story time: A colleague of mine asked me for some Jobs-to-be-Done type definitions. You know, the classic functional, social, and emotional types. I thought a quick Internet search would suffice, but no. I didn't find something concrete. With little patience, and thinking I may have lost my search
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"Connect, Multipliers, Productivity Ninja, and Who Moved My Cheese..." Andy Brown is an award-winning advisor. He provides coaching to leaders in people-based businesses, enabling them to make better decisions more quickly. I asked Andy for 4 books he can specifically recommend to you, dear reader and awesome leader.
Introducing Leadsticks Zine One. In this first issue you will reinvent your relationship with failure so you can become the true leader you want to be.
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The sword is the mind When the mind is right, the sword is right. When the mind is not right, the sword is also not right. He who wishes to study the sword, must first study his mind. This poem, written by Toranosuke Shimada, is one of the few I
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After I open my laptop, I write a bit. In the morning, right after I open my laptop, I go to my Obsidian app. In there, I open a "today's daily note" and write down my thoughts. Sometimes, I spend a minute and write a sentence
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"Start with basic principles, go slow and build" — Seth Godin If you want to jumpstart a regular writing practice, follow these steps to increase your odds at being consistent. Set Up 1. Find an anchor moment—an existing routine where you can tie your new practice as easy
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