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 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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Yo Leaders – You Ain’t All That and a Bag of Chips

I have always enjoyed the saying, “You ain’t all that and a bag of chips” because it is so descriptive of many of the situations that I have seen in business and life. A fitting example of this happened just a couple of weeks ago when I had the opportunity to connect with a few […]

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Leading the Little Rascals?

One of my favorite shows growing up on Saturday mornings was, “The Little Rascals.” I have to admit I even like watching the remake movies with my grandkids because they bring back such great memories and still make me laugh. I’m pretty sure everybody reading this has seen at least one episode of The Little […]

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