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Every Monday, I’ll try to offer something to think about in a short video nugget,

hoping you’ll take two minutes to consider for extra perspective to help you start your work week.

New episodes drop on Mondays by 10AM US ET here, YouTube, and LinkedIn. 

All past episodes are available here and YouTube. 

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  • If you are a leader, then you are an apple

    Think about this: you can count the number of seeds that will come from an apple, but you cannot count the number of apples that will come from one seed. That’s what leadership impact looks like. Transcript Did you know that you can predict the number of seeds that will come from an apple? Think…

  • Win the race to apologize first

    Have you ever been in an argument – and you knew that you were right – so all that was necessary was the other person needed to apologize? Yeah … you might have been right … they might have been sorry … but that probably wasn’t how the argument ended.  Let’s talk about that. Transcript…

  • Delegation rarely saves time

    Delegating expert tasks rarely yields immediate time savings, but it always results in growing others’ expertise and your impact – and that is time well spent.  Let’s talk about it. Transcript I often talk to folks about how they “don’t have enough time” and their desire to delegate. In most cases, delegating expertise-based tasks rarely…

  • What are you going to do about it?

    Have you noticed that some ‘Two-Minute Mondays‘ videos are closer to 3 minutes?  (never over, but close)  Admittedly, ‘One-Minute Mondays’ seems too short to be meaningful – but ‘Three-Minute Mondays’ seems too long to try.  Let’s talk about what those ‘Two Minutes’ are really supposed to be. Transcript Have you noticed that some 2-Minute Monday…

  • Roses – Buds – and Thorns

    If you’ve ever gotten through a big project/event and wanted to talk about how to do it better, you might have had an “after action” meeting – usually framed around Start, Stop, Continue.  There’s a twist on that which I like better. Roses, Buds, and Thorns explores the WHY as well as the WHAT to…

  • Innovate as you Iterate

    People and organizations often have “core values” that define who they are or want to be – which in turn, ought to drive every other decision you make. One of my core values lines up with what my employer calls “Innovate and Iterate.”  Let’s talk about how that works. Transcript People and organizations often have…