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Questions for you
Each year, we see proof in nature that Spring is a time of renewal. What about for you? What did you used to do that worked well, but you’ve stopped doing? What investments in yourself and others are you no longer making that you’d like to renew? What daily or weekly practices for a better
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The scream
Lately, I’ve heard about co-workers having a shouting match filled with accusations and four-letter language because frustrations had boiled over, colleagues ignoring each other because they don’t like how something was handled, work piled on by managers who are unaware of the impact, and frustrations with unreasonable expectations when days are filled with back-to-back, on-screen
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Assumptions
I was talking with a director who was aggravated about an email he received covering a number of issues. He assumed the writer had bcc’d someone else and it affected how he viewed the content as well as the writer of it. Did he know the person’s true intent? He decided the best course of
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Baking cheesecakes
I was reading about Anamaria Morales, a young woman whose dogged determination and love of baking and selling her creative cheesecakes got her through college – the first in her family to go. She started her business, The College Confectionista, with that dream when she was a senior in high school. She banked $9,000 the first
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Learn something
When you want to learn something, what do you do? You pay attention. You listen. You block out distractions. You look for connections. What if you were to treat those you work with as if you could learn something from them. Especially those you avoid dealing with and those who annoy you. What might you