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How to Avoid Hiring a Narcissist: A Toxic Hire Will Hurt Your Team and Your Leadership Credibility

Narcissists threaten organizational culture with traits such as entitlement, grandiosity, lack of empathy, and behavior that prioritizes…

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The Executive Brain

A neuroscience lens, using the CARB model of social motivators, helps leaders understand how they can create…

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The Business School Mindset Doesn’t Mind Physician Burnout

Even those of us with a meditation cushion and a gong app are likely to recoil when…

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Unleash The Instigator Within (When Your Team or Your Organizational Culture Needs a Shake Up)

My first grade teacher at Little Flower Catholic Grade School told me I was an instigator. I…

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Why Leaders Must Embrace Resistance

You have an innovative idea that will streamline the work, double the margin, improve quality and eliminate…

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Physicians Must Lead. Here’s Why

Some docs consistently say “no thanks” to formal leadership roles. They prefer not to run for a…

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Hit A Plateau? Three Ways to Shift Gears and Get Moving

My coaching client, a senior director in healthcare, told me she was surprisingly preoccupied and disappointed after…

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A Critique of HBR’s Article: “You Can’t Fix Culture”

The Harvard Business Review magazine was on my desk, still in plastic: YOU CAN’T FIX CULTURE JUST…

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Tenacity and References: Two Things Needed to Hire the Right Person

“It’s in the EQ/social behavior area where our candidate evaluations repeatedly fall short. It’s almost as if…

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