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Why the Leader Should Go Last
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How to Lead a Smarter Team
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As a leader, have you ever thought, “I wish my team were smarter?” (And, if so, hopefully you only thought it!) Well, it turns out there’s a way to increase the overall intelligence of your team—and it’s a way that many leaders unconsciously ignore.
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Leading Change: The Missing Step
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Sadly, I speak from experience. During my fifteen years as the Executive Producer of Seattle’s sketch comedy TV show Almost Live!, I led my ...
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Why Do We Fear Change?
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Leaders often find themselves asking, “Why is my team so resistant to change?” It turns out there’s actually a very good reason!
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The Truth About Leading Creative Teams
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If you lead a creative team, you might be surprised to learn that a big part of your job is not covered in your job description.
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Those of you who are familiar with the magnificent physical specimen that I have become will find this difficult to believe, but in high school I was a band geek. That’s right. Conestoga Valley High School, marching band, drum section. While the cool guys were running up and down the field getting touchdowns and girls, I was marching up and down the field in spats. Envious, aren’t you?
So being one of the drummers in the marching band was not exactly ...
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How to Be Both Leader and Team Member
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Big Leadership Question #1:
Can you be both the leader of, and an equal member of, a work team?
Big Leadership Question #2:
How?
For those of you who are scratching your heads and saying, “What the hell is he talking about?” let me explain.
For 15 years I was the executive producer of a sketch comedy TV show called Almost Live! But for those same 15 years, I was also one of the ...
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A friend of mine recently asked me if I could sit in on keyboards with his band for an upcoming gig. I have the night available, so I said sure. A few nights ago I went to a rehearsal so I could meet the other guys in the band and get a feel for the music.
It could have gone better.
Oh, it wasn’t bad, mind you. But it could have gone better. They didn’t show me a set list or any ...
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How to Engage Your Team
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Why do so many leaders find it difficult to engage their team? One of the reasons is that they don’t give their teams anything to be engaged about.
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Because I apparently have trouble saying no, I’ve been a member of several boards of directors (or, in some cases, boards of trustees, although the differences, as far as I could tell, were negligible). Some of these boards were more dysfunctional than others. Eventually I noticed that as the size of the board increased (i.e., number of people), so did the dysfunction. According to the research, the same is true of nearly all work teams.
So now, as a writer, I ...
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