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Three Ways to Lead with Love

Valentines Day is coming up and you will probably have a few conversations about love in the days ahead. I think that we need to be having more conversations about love at work because there are profound benefits when it…

Five Things in a Great Decision

Kim Scott’s book Radical Candor is all about how to have difficult conversations in order to foster a culture of candor. One of my favourite sections tackles how to get to a great decision. As one might expect a Silicon…

Seven tips for when you have to speak truth to power

Managing up is part of peoples’ jobs. Being able to respond to superiors when you don’t agree with their position is a key skill. Many organizations foster this sort of feedback – particularly those that recognize the importance of radical…