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Hope you are having a good beginning of the month. This month Hardcore Soft Skills podcast turns 4 years old, so its a great time to start a new season of the podcast with a new episode next week. In case you have not noticed, I have made some updat…

"When people are trying to be dominant, they will, they will take up important resources. Okay. So the important resources around us are things like time, volume, not only volume of voice, but volume of space, how much space they take, how much volu…

"Giving feedback is worthless. It's actually not quite worthless. It's worth something for the person who gives it. But study after study shows that basically giving someone else feedback has very minute impact in their behavior. What you want is a …

'A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.' – Simon Sinek No matter if you work on-site or remote, and regardless of your role, you probably are a member of a team. Do you consider yo…

I received exciting news late last week. My 3 courses on "soft" skills developed in partnership with the production company Madecraft are all available now via various providers.  In each course I put together a collection of my experience, re…

 When you think about how can we be more productive. It's really about being more present with what you're doing, because you can hit a golf ball better. You can cook spaghetti better. You can tuck your kids into bed better. There's a lot of th…

It has been a few weeks since I emailed you but I was on a little break. Well, not really, as summer has involved a lot of driving kids to camp, working with various tech teams launching new initiatives, speaking at conference, and finishing my last…

One of the things I say to clients is communicate your best. So when you go into a room, ... one of the tricks I suggest is think of a favorite person in your life, whether it's a grandparent or a mentor, or perhaps you had a horrible life and you d…

Traditional managers often don't want to hear bad news and people often get punished as the messenger or if you've made a mistake. By its definition, a lean leader wants to hear about these problems and they want to have a bias for action and solve …

    We are in an age of acceleration. Everything is accelerating. Every graph you look at these days looks like things are bumping along, bumping along, bumping along, and t…