ON SECOND THOUGHT

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Practical insights on leading for sustainable high performance (aka excellence minus the burnout and misery)

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#5 Feed the Right Algorithm

Social media and news aggregators often use algorithms to "personalize" content based on your past behavior. Your team members (and colleagues) often do much the same thing...

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#4 The Messy Paradoxes of Leadership

Truly effective and enduring leadership has always been a bit messy and mired in paradox. We have always aspired to be kind and demanding, to ensure performance and enable employees to develop and make mistakes…

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#3 Dogged Humility

As the old saying goes, “Little dogs bark all the time. Big dogs don’t have to.”

Any leader who spends significant time and energy “barking” their superiority, doesn’t truly believe it. And neither does anyone else around them…

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#1 Reasons Matter

Erosion can be subtle. The ground on which we stand can shift in nearly imperceptible increments until one day what was is no longer, and we end up moving backwards…

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