Have you every driven while blindfolded? I hope the answer is no! But I bring up the question as a way to illustrate why creating clarity as a leader is so critical. Now, back to the analogy. Let’s say that…
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The Power of Building Trust
Human beings don’t naturally trust one another. You can blame our brains for that. Your brain makes unconscious decisions regarding trust on your behalf and you can’t force your brain to trust. Yet we hear people say all the time…
Posted in Responsibility, Value
Distinguishing “Workable” from “Fair”
As a parent of three young ladies, I often find myself embroiled in household battles over fairness. On almost a daily basis, I hear things like, “That’s not fair!” when it comes to everything from who gets time on the…
Posted in Articles, Responsibility
Being Cause in the Matter of Outcomes and Not Just Tasks
In the course of a workday, we all have something that doesn’t go the way we want it to. There are generally two reasons why we don’t get the outcome we want: Someone important wasn’t committed to that outcome. Or,…
Posted in Uncategorized
Why It’s More Workable to Tackle the Harder Tasks First
Thanks to our internal wiring, human beings favor the path of least resistance. That makes sense for many reasons. For one, it’s a survival mechanism: of course you’re going to grab the food that’s easiest to get. At the same…
Posted in Uncategorized
Making Remote Work Workable
It used to be that when you went to work, it meant you headed to a physical location somewhere: an office, factory, quarry, shipping terminal, or wherever. But now, with the dawn of the Internet Age, more and more workers…
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Let Concerns Drive Your Life – Not Consequences
When you go about setting your to-do list for your week, how do you set your priorities? Do you tend to place items higher because you really want to tackle them? Or, do you find yourself prioritizing the things that…
Posted in Performance
Why Virtues Hinder Workability
Does your company struggle with keeping your values as something more than just words on a poster in the break room? Or, how do you build values into your organization so that your company truly operates by those values? The…
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How Exactly Do I BE a Mentor?
I’ve been asked to mentor as part of High Tech Rochester’s LaunchPad program. It certainly sounds like a great opportunity to help fellow entrepreneurs gather some momentum. I can’t help but wonder, “How exactly do I be a mentor?” I’ve…
Banishing Burnout
If we want to be high achievers, we have to work really hard; if we work too hard, we’ll get burned out and fail to achieve much of anything. Contradictory? Not exactly. It’s about perception. Sometimes, people warn us that…