Why You Need to Heed The Signal
We’ve grown up thinking that feeling bad means that there is something wrong with us, them, or the situation and that this something wrong needs to …
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Rock Stars
When we are worried about what to say, how someone might react, or how we’ll be judged, we are pointing the camera at ourselves. We get …
When People Consistently Drop The Ball or Act Badly
We all sometimes make mistakes or do things in a less-than-helpful way (e.g. late, surly, or sloppily). We typically forgive each other, forget, and move …
Are Your People Geniuses or Not?
We can see people as either geniuses or not. If they are not, they are like machines; they have a fixed performance capacity. And we believe …
Avoid Failure by Not Fixing Others’ Flaws
When we see poor performance, we judge the capabilities of the person who was supposed to do the work. We then tell them about it and …
Why Do We Need Employee Alignment?
Employee alignment and engagement are fairly recent workplace improvement trends. Employee alignment is the practice of getting everyone behaving in ways that deliver strategic goals. Employee engagement is …