The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: How Leaders Fix Them

Dysfunctional Team Meeting

You have smart, talented people on your team, but somehow meetings always seem to go sideways, decisions stall, accountability feels like an uphill battle, and everyone seems to be rowing in a different direction.   Sound familiar?  Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is one of the most widely read books in leadership for a reason. It puts a name…

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Leading Yourself in 2023 ABC Goal Setting

The turning of the year is a human construct, but we still imbue it with all kinds of meaning. I don’t go in much for resolutions, and the statistics about people actually keeping those resolutions (Save more! Eat healthy! Call my mom!) is kind of laughable. Still, to the extent that the new year helps…

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Success, happiness and the power of gratitude

“Success leads to happiness” is a story. It’s so powerful and pervasive a story that often we don’t even realize that it’s working in our lives as a kind of operating system below our consciousness. We’re following a narrative that we haven’t consciously adopted, but that we’ve absorbed from the ambient culture through marketing, advertising,…

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Creating the Conditions for Happiness at Work

Lead 24/7 alumni gathered in September 2022 to hear from sociologist Tracy Brower about happiness at work. Dr. Brower’s presentation covered myths that surround happiness, and how leaders can help create the conditions for happiness in the workplace.

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The DoKnowBe Tree at Wake up West Coast

In a presentation at Wake Up West Coast, Rodger Price unpacked the DoKnowBe Tree concept. For anyone wanting to better understand their unique design for leadership, this really is a great primer on how Leading by DESIGN works to help leaders better know themselves and lead more effectively and authentically

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