Sun.Oct 13, 2019

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Are You a Toxic Leader?

Peter Stark

Right out of school, my first job was the stuff of horrors. I stepped from college to working for a manufacturer. My boss was moody and, if that alone wasn’t enough, he was also a yeller, swearer and the president’s son. Forgive my language but he was just an ass. One day, I told a friend that I was going to stroll down to the president’s office and tell him his son was a jerk.

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Open the cookies

Seth Godin Blog

Put a bag of cookies in the break room and it might sit for days. Open the bag and leave it out, and within an hour, all the cookies will be gone. We are happy to take a tiny slice off the thing that’s being shared, but we hesitate to open the bag. The same is true with all of the initiatives in our culture. Design, movements and ideas are all trapped, waiting to be opened, and then the rest of us will happily pile on.

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How to Manage your Strengths when Things Aren’t going Well

Leadership Vision Consulting

Today on the Podcast, Sara Schlipp-Reidel and Nathan Freeburg will be talking about how to manage your Strengths when life circumstances aren't the way we prefer them to be. When we are stressed, tired, hungry, angry, or experience any other triggers that don’t enable us to be the best versions of ourselves, how do we cultivate awareness, presence of mind, and emotional maturity to show up as the best versions of ourselves?