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July 29, 2025
The curse of competence
What do you think about this statement? The curse of being competent. It seems a little bit like an oxymoron. How can being competent be a bad thing? Growing
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July 22, 2025
Do You Live In The Past, Present or Future?
This week’s inspiration comes from a thought-provoking discussion within the MG 100 community. As the ever-insightful Marshall Goldsmith gears up for a new book, he often taps into the collective
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July 15, 2025
Start Strong in Your New Job! 💪✨
I just got back from visiting my son at school and a substantial portion of our conversations were about summer internships. (Side note: If you are in the NY/NJ
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July 8, 2025
Get Respect AND Build Relationships, Here’s How
“I would rather be respected than liked.” Ugh, I can’t count how many times people, and surprisingly more women than men, have said this to me. It’s drives me
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July 1, 2025
How to Transform from a Micro-Manager to a Micro-Leader
Have you ever gotten a 360? It is an eye-opening, humbling, empowering, and vulnerable experience. Performing a 360 is a key part of my executive coaching engagements. The idea is
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June 24, 2025
Are you a people pleaser?
I admit it, I want to be liked. Big shock since I literally wrote the book on likability. Generally, I try to be accommodating and make everyone happy, at least to the
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June 17, 2025
Feeling unmotivated? Try this.
Does your company do engagement surveys? I often see organizations scramble for answers when the scores are less than stellar. I must admit, I have mixed feelings about these surveys.
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June 10, 2025
Turn underestimation into your secret weapon
Back in 2017, I wrote a blog post called “Why Being Underestimated Can Be A Good Thing.“ To this day, it is one of the top ways people randomly land on
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June 3, 2025
DON’T do it! My new take on productivity
There is an ongoing and unending to do list of tasks running through my brain all day and unfortunately, all night too. I put every single task I need
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May 27, 2025
How do you learn?
Have you ever noticed how the most lasting lessons are the ones you actually experience—not just the ones you read or hear about? The fact is, there are there
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