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Not every team needs more advice. But the best teams always need more clarity. These articles are built for the leaders asking better questions—about alignment, about trust, about what actually moves people. Practical insights. No fluff. Just tools that help you lead with purpose.

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Cheat Sheet To Making Your Business's Big Decisions

When the world is surging and contorting, decisiveness is what your business desperately needs. Thankfully, it can be practiced. One’s approach to it can established and refined. Choose with confidence with these six short steps.

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Mentor, Jump In and Rescue, or Coach?

Here in contemporary times, when businesses face immediate and crushing challenges, the answer is (almost) always to coach. And that’s because, by and large, people don’t really like advice, and they struggle to follow it. And no one likes being bossed around.

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Pure Decisiveness Is Overrated

For your business to maintain an edge, you simply must be decisive. Set yourself to be adequately informed enough to decide quickly. And then get on with it.

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This Circle Taped to My Wall Is Keeping Me Calm-ish Today

I voted. Now it’s time to acknowledge that where things go from here is out of my hands. Here are five ways I’m boxing up and set aside election stress in order to crank out something that resembles productive workdays this week.

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Lived Values Are This CEO's Key To People-First Leadership

Dan Maguire set out on an experiment in corporate values. He vowed to not merely have them but actually implement them in such a way that they both philosophically and functionally drive the business. He saw it as an avenue to put people first in very concrete ways. What he learned is rather extraordinary.

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You've Got Executive Coaching All Wrong

From the idea that it’s about advice to its pigeonholing as professional development, I dismantle common misconceptions and myths about executive coaching.

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Leaders With Integrity Practice These Habits

In my observation through decades as a student of business and organizational leadership, integrity is the characteristic that makes good leaders great. Here are the six habits they practice.

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Your World Needs You To Use Your PTO (and use it well)

If you want your team at the very best, encourage them to use their PTO to its fullest and to log off completely when they do. And when they’re sick, let them curl up in peace with a blanket and chicken soup until they’re better. You’ll get a more dynamic, engaged version of then when they return and in general.

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