Generally speaking, leaders want to be the best leader they can possibly be. They want their teams to perform as best as possible. Sometimes, this desire can lead to micromanagement. What starts off as a desire to ensure high performance can turn into a need to oversee everything. The problem
Have you ever gotten so frustrated, so upset that you immediately blamed someone else for the situation? Even if you already knew that blaming doesn’t work? Be honest with yourself now… It’s happened to all of us. I know that I’ve certainly been guilty of it more times than I’d
We all know how challenging it can be to work with people who have different personalities than our own. Have you ever noticed that you’re instantly drawn towards people who think like you? It’s a natural phenomenon, known as the affinity bias. The affinity bias basically means that we’re automatically
At top concern of many leaders is how to increase work productivity. The challenge is that there are only a certain number of hours in a day and a certain number of things that can be accomplished in a day. And this isn’t always a seamless match. There are the
Have you found yourself hitting periods of time when you struggling to focus on your work? In conversation after conversation lately, people keep telling me how hard it has become to focus. I hear them berate themselves for not getting enough done. For not working fast enough. For not doing
During stressful times, our prefrontal cortex becomes overwhelmed. This is the part of the brain that’s responsible for rational decision making, reasoning and problem solving. So in times of stress, we often behave and respond in ways that are automatic and reactive rather than doing so in a more thoughtful
Have you ever had one of those days where you realize that you’ve spent your ENTIRE day in meetings and responding to e-mail? Days where you feel like all you’ve accomplished is talking about what you’re going to do, without any actual doing? As you wind up your day, you
Five years ago, when my mom and uncle were killed in a car accident, my life fell apart overnight. I literally went from hopping out of the pool laughing with the kids and chatting with a friend, to sobbing for months on end. My existence seemed divided into two distinct
We’ve all seen the social media posts about people clearing the stores out of essential items – toilet paper, hand sanitizer, bread, milk… COVID-19 has spun our society into a panic overnight, for understandable reasons. To say this that this very same panic isn’t also affecting business decisions would be
Have you ever been in a job where there’s been one or more colleagues who you simply do not get along with? We get to pick our friends, but we don’t get to pick our colleagues. It seems that in any job, there are colleagues with whom we connect very
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