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Monthly Archives: September 2019

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Get Organized To Achieve Your Dreams - Clear and Open

One Simple Question that Cuts Through Excuses (And Why You Probably Won’t Ask It)

Engagement, Leadership, Personal DevelopmentBy Josef ShapiroSeptember 28, 2019Leave a comment

Managers hear a lot of excuses. I know because they tell me. I also know the reason is because they make a lot of excuses, only they do it more subtly. One of my martial arts teachers once said to a group of black belts, “Watch the white belts very carefully. They make the same…

Leadership Means Embracing Discomfort No One Else Will - Clear and Open

Why Performance Reviews Don’t Work and What to Do About it

Accountability, Engagement, Leadership, Management, Personal DevelopmentBy Josef ShapiroSeptember 9, 2019Leave a comment

Mary, a manager in a manufacturing company, recently told me about a very stressful performance review she conducted. She gave her employee, John, some challenging feedback about how poorly he did his job. John was aghast. Not only did he think he was doing well, but he had been expecting a raise. He left the…

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