It’s Performance Appraisal Time – Are You Thinking with Both Your Head and Your Heart?

It’s that time of year most leaders and employees dread – performance appraisal time. Many leaders struggle finding the time to craft meaningful performance appraisals – not to mention developmental plans – for their people. And on the other side of the equation, the apprehension of what the performance appraisal might or might not bring […]

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When the Bright Lights Shine, Will You Be Ready?

A friend of mine recently posted a video clip of an old Johnny Carson show where the scheduled virtuoso pianist was unable to fulfill their obligations to the Tonight Show. Johnny took the nontraditional, and certainly risky, approach of taking a few volunteers from the audience to see if they could fill the spot. The […]

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When Losing is Winning

I couldn’t believe the post on my LinkedIn feed. Someone had posted a pic of a full-figured model and asked one of those dumb, “duh” questions such as, “Should Full-Figured Models be Allowed to Walk the Fashion Runway?” My self-justified, smart-ass Comment, “Move this to Facebook.” I mean this is LinkedIn. Where I LIVE as […]

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