Quote of the Week: On Meetings, Minutes & Hours

Our leadership quote of the week will not be popular with many leaders, but it’s a good one for those who are looking for ways to save time and, get to goal PLUS boost morale, productivity and overall performance.

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Reminder: It’s Bike to Work Week

Ride Your Bike to Work Week (this week) and Ride Your Bike to Work Day (Friday) is a good way to nudge more in that direction.

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10 tactics for drawing out winners

To me, one of leadership’s greatest rewards is drawing the winner out in someone, when she seemed like such a loser that no one, not even Lucy Loser, believed she had it in her. How to do it? Here are 10 common tactics…along with commentary about likely results for each.

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Happy Chocolate Chip Cookie Day

Enjoy chocolate chip cookies AND a boost to morale and productivity.

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Time to Dance Like a Chicken

You may feel like a fool. Your teammates may roll their eyes. But they will laugh too. And that will lighten the load, break the tension and maybe even bring people closer together. Not just today – but down the road as they think about or talk about the day that they pushed to goal and boss did the chicken dance in front of everyone!

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10 ways to handle losers

If you are in pursuit of important growth objectives, you need every team member to be galloping to goal. If a few are just limping along – or even worse laying around on the job – you must be so frustrated! What are you going to do?

Here are 10 possibilities.

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