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Give Away Great Work

I've come to understand something lately that I wish I had learned a long time ago: Every leader eventually runs out of time. When you're 30 or 40, running out of time means this week is too busy. When you're 50, it might mean another late night or...

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Getting Comfortable Being Bad

Back-to-school season is a perfect reminder that learning is supposed to feel awkward. When you start something new, the learning curve is real, and...

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When You Can't Hear What Your Boss is Telling You

When I was a freshman in college, I was assigned to report on a story for our campus newspaper. This required interviewing the Dean of Students about...

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The Physiology of Misalignment

Have you ever gotten a tiny splinter from your deck and spent far too long trying to find it?

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The Meeting that Matters

The most important meeting on your calendar probably isn't the executive team meeting, the board meeting, or the quarterly business review.

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Unsaid Expectations

The fastest way to damage trust on a team is surprisingly quiet: leaving expectations unsaid. When we assume people “should just know,” we create the...

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The IKEA Effect: People Care About What They Help Build

When Betty Crocker first introduced boxed cake mixes in the 1950s, the products were marketed as ultimately easy. Just add water! But sales were slow...

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Trust Your Wings

At BecomeMore, one of our core values is to Level Up, continuously.

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Why Treating Everyone The Same Hurts Performance

Treating everyone the same at work sounds kind, fair, and conflict-free, but it often produces the opposite results. In this conversation, we use a...

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