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Better Questions, Better Answers
By changing one’s approach to brainstorming—focusing more on questions than answers—leaders can yield more instructive insights.
What If You Stopped Making Decisions?
When leaders stop making decisions, it can enable otherwise passive followers to become proactive leaders. These lessons from David Marquet and Turn the Ship Around! show us the way.
“What if this could be easy?”
Greg McKeown shows that even after you’ve cut everything that is nonessential from your life, things can still feel off. Thankfully, in Effortless, he provides strategies to achieve an effortless state.
Good News: No One Knows What They’re Doing
The lessons I learned during on the first year of Thrive Street Advisors.
Do, Feel, Believe, Know
A framework for preparing for communications, inspired by Let the Story Do the Work by Esther Choy.
When Credibility Undermines Performance
How using humor, centering, and putting oneself in the story can help black leaders communicate more effectively.
It’s Hard, but Connection Requires Vulnerability
The major reframe that helped these Black leaders feel comfortable showing vulnerability at work: concluding that while self-protection is legitimate, it's not always useful.
Having It All... Just Kidding
Ironically, the point of Quinn Mills' "Having It All...and Making It Work" is that we cannot, in fact, have it all. Thankfully, he provides guidance for how to make the balance work.
Changing Your Default Leadership Approach
Lessons from Multipliers by Liz Wiseman on putting yourself in a leadership straitjacket to change behaviors.