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Leadership Productivity

How Sabbatical Helped Me Starve My Ego and Feed My Soul

This was all about my heart and soul. For six weeks I set aside everything related to my regular work: no email, no meetings, no phone calls, no airplanes, no texts with teammates, no strategizing or problem-solving, no conversations about work (not even with my wife who works in the same organization). I decided I would go against my type-A nature and be completely unproductive: no major house projects, no writing, no nothing.

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Leadership Productivity

Is Your Leadership Messy Enough?

Confession: I love working from a clean desk. My creativity blossoms when I see a clean whiteboard or a fresh page in my journal. At least to start something. But once the ideas get flowing and people and projects come together I have learned, over many years in leading, that mess is best. Over the […]

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Digital Leadership Productivity

What is Digital Maturity?

What is Digital Maturity? How digitally mature is the organization you work for? One year ago I didn’t even understand the question, much less have any way to answer it. Over the past 12 months a number of my colleagues and I have been exploring the implications of being digitally immature in a 21st century […]