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Five Steps To Embrace Conflict
I will start off by making a confession. I hate conflict. I would rather we all get along and play nice – world peace and all that. My usual response to conflict is to pretend it’s not happening, pretend it’s someone else’s problem, or to run away from it. I’ve...
INSIGHT: Bad Comparison
Do you ever find yourself comparing yourself with others? No matter how much more lucky “they” are, they’re probably not as rich, happy or successful as you think they are. Most of us know the downsides of comparing ourselves with others, but we do it anyway. We look...
Research Says: Gender Diversity Improves Team Performance
Study: The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment (Tinbergen Institute, 2011, Hoogendoorn, Oosterbeek, van Praag) Finding: Teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated and female-dominated...
Co-opting the Power of the Toxic Boss
I just read a great article by Richard Boyatzis detailing the brain science behind “emotional contagion.” I find this particularly interesting in the context of corporate culture, having observed some pretty toxic bosses “infect” their staffs and encourage cultures where competition, backstabbing, emotional abuse and just plain incompetence were so rampant that you could feel the powerlessness and despair when you walked in the door.
The good news is that the ability to emotionally infect your staff and teams can be used for good by leaders who understand their responsibility to foster a positive environment and culture where others are in their power and able to perform at their best. To be a good leader, then, you need to…
Why Are Women Burning Out If We Aren’t Working Over 50+ Hours A Week?
I was shocked to read that only 9% of working mothers work 50 or more hours per week according to the American Community Survey. So why are so many of us feeling fried? Yes there is the issue that this study only measured paid work, and not the unpaid work of being a...
INSPIRATION: Shake It Up
Last week I moved my house and office, and despite some meticulous packing, unpacking became a Tetris game to fill new shelves and drawers with the same old stuff. Guess what? By shaking up my possessions and requiring myself to sort through them and reorganize them...
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