Emotional Maturity: How do I get there?

By Jeffrey Boersma | October 15, 2016 |

Scenario 1: It’s Monday morning and you are feeling great. You took the time Sunday evening to really get yourself organized, and you planned out for the week in order to help things go smoothly. No sooner do you arrive at work and someone comes up to you with a pressing problem that is going to completely…

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Time Flies (Away)

By Meredith Nieuwsma | October 10, 2016 |

(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) I’m supposed to be in New York visiting a friend right now. Instead, I’m sitting in my Grand Rapids home office writing this post with a new understanding of the risks of flying super low-cost airlines during hurricane season. Travel…

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The Great Eight: Knowing Yourself and Others

By Jeffrey Boersma | September 12, 2016

If everyone were just more like me, the world would be a better place—or at least my organization would be—or at least my team would be. Besides being an entirely narcissistic statement, it would not be the case that if our teams simply had more uniformity, they would be better. But when are differences valuable? When are they…

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How To Find Your Sweet Spot

By Rodger Price | January 18, 2016

(This post is written for alumni of LEAD365, although all are welcome to read it.) One of the things we want to do with the Leadership Matters blog is to keep you in the loop of new things we’ve added to LEAD 365 since you participated. In this spirit I want to let you know…

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