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February 28, 2022 in Success in business | Tags: Emotion, Engagement, Listening, Passion | Leave a comment
We often get entranced by new things. As a software engineer, I found myself drawn to every new computer, operating system and application for many years.
But that was just me. Everybody has different things that turn them on!
Why should we care? Because you have to realize that the things that get you excited may not at all be what thrills your employees. Or customers.
Read the rest of this entry »Back-to-office decision starts with listening
July 11, 2021 in Success in business | Tags: Listening, Pandemic, Priorities, Structure | 1 comment
I see a lot of businesses struggling with their new model for people working in the office versus from home. This is a significant issue for those who worked so hard last year to suddenly create new approaches.
We’ve now discovered that “calling the troops back” isn’t nearly as simple as we expected.

Part of it is the still-evolving regulations, of course, but that’s minor compared to what workers need and expect from their employers. The difficult truth is that each person is making his or her own unique decision, based on complicated factors that they’ve never had to deal with before:
Read the rest of this entry »Leadership is listening!
April 19, 2021 in Success in business | Tags: Caring, Engagement, Leadership, Listening | Leave a comment
Leadership is about telling people where to go and what to do. Right?
Well, no.
The truth is that, as Marshall Goldsmith proclaims, leadership is 80% listening. How do we resolve this disconnect?