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Who Should Bale the Hay?
Baling hay. It’s important & urgent work on a farm. It’s also a great business metaphor related to THE NUMBER ONE barrier to growth...
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Are you tolerating toxic productivity?
Toxic productivity. Is this a new term to you? Or did the phrase make you cringe because you KNOW it exists in your organization? While it sounds like an oxymoron, it is more prevalent than most business leaders care to admit. Toxic productivity comes from employees who are a constant source of drama...
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Motivational Posters Will Not Get You to Mars
Core Values are a handful of rules that remain constant, a way of being or believing, that your company has in place and lives by every day. These are not concepts that can be “trained” into an employee. They either have similar values or they don’t. It’s really that simple. Core Values are an integral part of your company’s DNA. Here are 3 questions that will test whether you have chosen the right ones...
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Working “ON” the Business, not “IN” the Business – A necessary CEO transition
The very thing that gets a CEO to the top can also be their Achilles' heel. The transition from ‘player mode’ to ‘coach mode’ is a mindset that at first glance sounds easy, even refreshing – “Hey, I’m no longer responsible for doing all the work around here.” Yet many CEOs never make that transition.
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