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Indulge me for a moment and try to visualize a typical leader. Maybe you’ve been lucky and have a choice of great leaders to bring to the forefront of your mind. Many of you haven’t been so fortunate. You’re likely picturing someone who’s a huge presence — height and...

Forget the clichéd lemonade stand — my 8-year-old self wanted to stand out from the entrepreneurial crowd. For me and my good friend Julie, sandwiches were going to be the key to our fortune! Clearly the future founder of Subway had no cause for concern, J&L...

Did you know that one third of your team may not trust you? Shocking, right? But according to statistics, true nonetheless. A third of employees don’t trust the company they work for; they don’t believe their leaders will do what they promise and they’re pretty much...

You’ve done it again! You desperately clamp your hand over your mouth, wishing you could scoop the words back in as if you’d never uttered them in the first place. It’s not that you’ve said something offensive. You haven’t insulted your entire team. It’s just that...

I didn’t see it coming. Friday morning, I greeted the barista, picked up my usual latte, made my way into the office. Just one more day until the weekend — I was feeling pretty darn good. The first clue was the whispers as I entered the office. “Is she here?”, “Does...

Ethics and morals — they’re the same thing, right? Potato…po-tah-to. Well, no. Despite the fact that many of us (me included!) sometimes use the terms interchangeably, they’re actually two distinct concepts. Of course, most of the time it doesn’t really matter if you...

“Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible” — Aristotle. Aristotle was a big fan of courage. He thought it the one human quality from which all others spring — and he was really on to something, especially when it comes to the question of what...