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Posted on September 16, 2021September 15, 2021

Spreading praise

True praise roots and spreads.George Herbert, "Proverbs" in The Complete English Works, 276. The first word is critical: True The difference between affirmation and flattery…

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Posted on July 6, 2021July 5, 2021

Home

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant…

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Posted on March 31, 2021March 22, 2021

Affirmation

Sam Crabtree's Practicing Affirmation is excellent. He argues that the normal drift of our lives pushes us toward correction and criticism and away from encouragement…

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Posted on January 5, 2021January 4, 2021

Your one up

Good organizations want to retain their best employees if at all possible. As a budding supervisor I was taught that the number one influencer for…

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Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

Always recruiting

If you're a leader, you're always recruiting. Perhaps not in the formal sense where you're literally trying to recruit folks to fill positions, but you're…

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Posted on December 15, 2020December 14, 2020

Humor

I've been tremendously blessed to grow up and through institutions that knew how to laugh. Though, I can't pretend that the humor was always appropriate--it…

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Posted on December 12, 2020December 10, 2020

Rivalry

"Last one into the house is a rotten egg!" Making ordinary tasks into competitions can be a powerful way to motivate behavior. But it also…

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