Have you ever thought about the Myers-Briggs of your organization? I worked with a company once that I thought was INFP. In M-B speak, if you say someone is INFP, that means that they tend to take their energy from within not from outside sources, that they rely on their own intuition more than data …
Imagine this: you have been put in charge of a project and given an unreasonable deadline (deadlines are always impossible, right?). You get organized, get moving, and actually making progress towards getting it done. Then your boss says, “I don’t feel like I know what is going on with this project.” Oops! You quickly prepare …
Several years ago, I worked with a woman who was very annoying. She micromanaged everything. She insisted on seeing every memo that I sent out that might possibly be implied to reference her department. I made the mistake of sending them to her and then she edited them by printing them and writing changes until …
Two days ago, I worked the election as a pollworker. Each time I do this, I learn something new. The last time I did this, I made friends with the other pollworkers and connected with at least one of them afterwards. This time, the experience was different. I was in a different polling place, with …
What do you do when your team has a lot of ideas but can't seem to agree on a path forward? You need them to narrow in but the discussion and ideas continue to get wider and wider? How can you take things to the next step? I recently worked with a client who faced …
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