My (mostly) weekly thoughts on leadership, high performance, wellbeing and more.

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How to escape from meetings overload

In nearly all of the dozens of workplaces we’ve studied, helped, or worked at, we’ve found that meetings in particular create wasteful and soul-crushing friction”…

A new Harvard Business Review piece reports research finding what we all already know to be true – and importantly, offers some solutions.

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Origin of leadership

What style of leader have you been lately?

The origin of the word “leader” holds a surprising clue.

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