Speaking Up When It’s Risky How do you speak truth to power? In episode 236 we talked with Harvard’s Amy Edmondson, who made the evidence-based case for how important it is to foster psychologically safe…
What I Taught Today The last time you said “I love meetings!” was probably, when? Never? Hah! To the contrary, meetings seem like an enormous waste of time in too many situations, right? I recently…
What I Taught Today You’re likely making this mistake when building your network. Whether it’s your connections social media or how you build relationships at work or with your projects, left to our own devices…
Hello? Can You Hear Me? Project teams are increasingly made up of team members that are not co-located. Even if that’s not your situation now, it likely will be in the future. How do you...
Would You Speak Up? Let’s say your manager’s boss is proposing an idea. It’s not a terrible idea, but you have some concerns. Some questions. You’re in a meeting, hearing about that idea, along with...
What I Taught Today On my way to teach an MBA class this morning, I tried and tried to give away a free donut. And I couldn’t get a taker. OK, I admit, maybe it’s…
What I Taught Today Recently I heard a presenter talk about what he referred to as “the happiness formula”. In this 4-minute video, I talk about what I like and don’t like about the formula…
What I Taught Today We continue our series of brief videos about something I’ve recently taught or learned. While prepping for an interview with James Clear about his book Atomic Habits, I came across some…
What I Taught Today We continue our series of brief videos about something I’ve recently taught or learned. Could it be that when things go great, leaders get too much credit (and too much blame…
What I Taught Today We continue our series of brief videos about something I’ve recently taught or learned. Today is a 90 second lesson from a morning bike ride on a brisk and windy Chicago…