Pick a Job, and Do It
As new opportunities emerge, it might be tempting to use your existing employees to pursue them. You need to be careful, though, about putting people into jobs that are not part of their current role. You run the risk of poor performance as well as the possibly pushing them out of the company. When we […]
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- Jun, 28, 2018
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Jun, 28, 2018
Back in Town
The Designing Leaders’ team has reconvened in Asia and will be leading some events this week around the region. We will get back to our regular blogging once we collect up some of the things we learned over the last couple weeks. Stay tuned! (one lesson already learned: 5:15am flights are no fun)
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- Jun, 25, 2018
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Scattered
Our team is currently scattered around Asia, Europe, and North America, so we will hit “pause” on the blog for a moment. We are collecting some good lessons and promise to share them soon!!
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- Jun, 18, 2018
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Studying Strong Leadership
Last weekend I attended my 30th reunion at the University of Virginia, and had a chance to chat with the current president, Teresa A. Sullivan. I had met her a few years before, at an alumni event in Singapore, and was very impressed by her candor and her grasp of issues, both the obvious big […]
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- Jun, 14, 2018
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The Past is Present
I spent this weekend at my 30th class reunion at the University of Virginia. It was a great couple of days seeing old places and old friends, some of whom I’m in touch with regularly, and others whom I have not seen since the day we graduated. Naturally, we all had plenty of stories to […]
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- Jun, 11, 2018
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