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What do you do when two people in your team simply cannot stand each other? Every few weeks my client has to deal with this exact situation. One member of his team comes to him privately to say his colleague is unprofessional and lazy. Then the other one comes separately to say he can never get a straight answer and that nothing is communicated openly. His plan was to keep the whole thing strictly factual. What was supposed to be delivered, what actually arrived, who said wha

My leadership style can be described as two weeks in the Bahamas with no wifi. 🏝️ It's summer break season again and I was recently reminded of my answer to an interviewer's question a few years ago about how I like to lead my team. It was a witty effort to describe in short the servant leadership style that I strongly believe in and apply. But don't let the tempting visual of a tropic vacation fool you; servant leadership takes a lot of hard #work and focused effort. Accord

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