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My Top 10 Leadership Insights Of 2016

There’s no question that the start of a new year brings to mind notions of new beginnings and a chance for a fresh start. Of course, as much as we might be eager to set our sights ahead into 2017 and envision all the possibilities and goals we might achieve, … Click to continue reading

Are You Employing This Key To Giving Effective Feedback?

With December now upon us, many leaders and their organizations are now shifting their focus towards that much debated and much-maligned practice for evaluating employee productivity and effectiveness: the annual performance review. Of course, while there has been much written lately about the ‘death of annual performance reviews’, a study … Click to continue reading

Why Leaders Need To Stop Using Performance Reviews

The following is a guest piece by former Disney executive Ken Goldstein. I don’t like performance reviews. I never liked giving them, and I never liked getting them. They are like school report cards, only less well-meaning and more poorly formed. They make the workplace more political, needlessly enforcing nerve-wracking … Click to continue reading

Great Teams Share More Than A Destination

The following is a guest piece by author Sean Glaze. If you’re like most team leaders, you go into your team’s season or project or quarterly sales period with a goal. And if you’re like most leaders, you find yourself frustrated at some point in that process because you struggle … Click to continue reading