Leadership · Mentoring and People
Mentoring Begins by Removing an Obstacle
Helping someone grow can start with the everyday barrier that keeps them from doing their best work.
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Leadership
Stories and practical choices for people leading teams.
Leadership · Books and Storytelling
Can a Leader Use a Mistake as a Teaching Story?
A candid story can help a team think clearly about decisions if the leader accepts responsibility and protects others.
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Leadership · Change and Transformation
How Do You Keep People With You During Change?
A practical reading of the trust, communication, and team choices in Jayson and the Corporate Argonauts.
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Leadership · Business Improvement
Before a Consulting Project, Walk the Work
A first-week approach to understanding a business problem with the people who live with it.
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Leadership · Books and Storytelling
What Navy Deck Plates Can Teach a Corporate Leader
A closer look at presence, responsibility, and learning from people across rank and role.
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Leadership · Business Improvement
Why Have Employees Stopped Reporting Small Problems?
Small workplace irritations become a leadership problem when people conclude that speaking up changes nothing.
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Leadership · Mentoring and People
Reverse Apprenticeship: Let the Team Teach the Leader
What a leader can learn by sitting beside the person who does the work, and why the follow-up matters.
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Leadership · Mentoring and People
Servant Leadership Stories: Take Care of Your People
Reverse apprenticeship, removing obstacles, and helping colleagues grow.
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Leadership · Books and Storytelling
Leadership Lessons From the Corporate Jungle and Navy Deck Plates
A personal collection of decisions and mistakes from military service, business, and teaching.
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Leadership · Business Improvement
Business Consulting Wows: Start With the People Who Know the Work
Employee knowledge, process improvement, trust, and the limits of fashionable management fixes.
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