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Cognitive Dissonance to Creativity
Have you ever been in a conversation with someone who had very different views on the subject you have been talking about and, as the conversations ends, they ask you to “just think about it”? Meaning, they want you to reflect on and consider their perspective. Or, maybe you said it to them. That request
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When Have Quick Fixes For Complex Issues Ever Worked?
When faced with an issue or challenge, the instinct is to problem-solve to find a quick solution. When the complexity of the problem is not fully understood, solutions created are often only designed to address a symptom of the underlying issues. Solving symptoms can lead to resolution but, far more often, the solution will fail
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The Sweet Spot Between Relational Leadership, Work and Learning for High Performance Teams
High performance teams are highly valued and often difficult to cultivate in the world of teams and team development. And to be clear, not every team needs to be a high-performance team to deliver results. However, leading edge, innovative organizations interested in attracting and retaining highly motivated employees want to encourage high performance teams, and
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Shifting Consciousness About the Power and Influence of History
Personal history, social history, world events history all have a strong influence on our worldviews, how we come to see, understand and experience the world. When taught, history is most often presented as a series of events – wars, elections, disasters – or singular events – Bloody Sunday, the march from Selma to Montgomery, Wounded
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Our DEI Policy Is In Place! How Is It the Hard Work is Just Beginning?
It is well known that having a Diversity-Equity-Inclusion policy in place does not necessarily mean that an organization is achieving any of its DEI goals and sometimes the situation gets worse. Why is this? Because having a policy does not automatically equate to increased diversity and, even more important, a workplace that feels welcoming and
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When Time is the Enemy
Time seems to be speeding up. While there is some debate on whether this is true, there is much less debate on whether the rate of change is speeding up. Influenced by increasing globalization, 24 hour news cycles, competitive pressures, rapidly changing technology, emergence of the new and accelerating obsolescence (planned or otherwise) of
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