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Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

This is one of those aphorisms that most of us would claim to agree with, but we’ve all experienced times where something wasn’t planned well. Planning is not only a learnable skill, but also habit that must be cultivated. It doesn’t matter what field you’re in or what your role is, a failure to plan and account for all the…

On Leadership & Team Dynamics

Leadership is one of those topics that everyone with direct reports assumes they know a lot about. What we often forget, though, is that leadership is not a one-way street; it requires the led to subscribe to a common cause. There’s an old expression: How do you know someone was a Marine? Because they ****ing tell you. I’m not one…