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What a Tile Game Taught Me About Leadership (at My Mom’s 90th Birthday)

Last Wednesday, I flew to celebrate my mother’s 90th birthday, an age she wears with the kind of energy that makes the rest of us look like we need a nap and a multivitamin. We surprised her by bringing my daughters, gathered with my siblings, and ended up around a table one day playing AZUL, a strategy-based tile game. And that’s when the Human Edge™ insight surfaced: the way we show up in low-stakes moments quietly mirrors how we show up in the ones that matter. Presence, patterns, patience, pressure tolerance in our micro-moments reveal more leadership truth than we think….
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in times of uncertainty, the risk we fear most isn't the decision we make, it's the decision we don't.

Your Gut Already Knows

It’s the season of costumes, candy, and things that go bump in the night. But let’s be honest, the scariest thing most of us face…
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From Shame Spiral to The Human Edge™: Bouncing Back After Mistakes

From Shame Spiral to The Human Edge™: Bouncing Back After Mistakes

This past week, I managed to make a mistake that cost me time, money, and my sanity. (Let’s just say my computer and I are…
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boundaries

5 Ways to Create Boundaries (to Avoid Workplace Burnout)

Feeling burned-out? Fried? Crispy? Well-done and over it? Already planning your next weekend on Monday morning at 8:02 a.m.? Oh, that’s right…I forgot. Someone already…
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Trends

5 Key Trends Leaders and Teams Must Embrace

Has it only been a few years since the pandemic? Pretty much. In that time, we have changed the way we meet, the way we…
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female

6 Ways Leaders Can Support Their Female Workforce in 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the modern workplaces across the world and the United States. Unfortunately, women were disproportionately impacted sparking the “She-Cession.” According to McKinsey’s…
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Virtual Meeting

7 Strategies for an Impactful Virtual Meeting

Are you guilty of multi-tasking during meetings? Unfortunately, being present during meetings, especially present-day virtual meetings, is so rare, I wish I could bottle and…
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Progress

The Power of Progress, Not Perfection

As we embrace a New Year filled with lists, promises, or one-word themes, I need to remind all of us that no matter how hard…
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Rethink

Rethink: 5 Keys to Build Resilience and Results

As 2021 comes to an end, what did you rethink or unlearn over the past couple of years in order to personally and professionally survive…
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Praise

How Smart Leaders Use Praise That Pays

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”…
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Burnout

5 Ways to Make Hybrid Work, Work with Less Burnout

Make Hybrid Work, Work with Less Burnout Are we virtual today, in-person, in-person on alternate days, every other week, masked, unmasked, sometimes masked? And, by the…
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