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Are You a Leader Who Develops Leaders?
By Mike Baer |
In my career, one of my proudest moments has always been when someone from my team is tapped ...
Read More When Did It Become OK?
By Mike Baer |
When did it become OK to drop the f-bomb in business meetings?When did it become OK to not ...
Read More THINK TIME (Part VII)
By Mike Baer |
This final installment addresses the question of how to turn annual intentions (Parts V-VI) into actions. We all ...
Read More Think Time (Part VI)
By Mike Baer |
In the last publication, we started looking at the annual commitment to Think Time and focused on looking ...
Read More Think Time (Part V)
By Mike Baer |
In this fifth installment of Think Time, we’ll focus on the annual time set aside to think, reflect, ...
Read More Think Time (Part IV)
By Mike Baer |
In this fourth installment of Think Time, we want to look at building it into your daily routine. ...
Read More Think Time (Part III)
By Mike Baer |
In the last installment, we explored getting an hour or two a week to “go to your Starbucks ...
Read More Think Time (Part 2)
By Mike Baer |
THINK TIME (Part 2) In our last post, we discussed the WHY of dedicated think time. In this ...
Read More THINK TIME (Part 1)
By Mike Baer |
I don’t even have to ask the rhetorical question, “Do you get enough think time?” We both know ...
Read More BEWARE THE COST OF CHANGE FATIGUE
By Mike Baer |
Look, I get it. As if the pandemic wasn’t enough, business must (MUST!) constantly pivot and change if ...
Read More The Desperate Need for a Cause
By Mike Baer |
As I survey the emotional landscape and the damages of a year of COVID-19 fears coupled with a ...
Read More Thriving IN Chaos
By Mike Baer |
THRIVING IN CHAOS Quite a number of years ago, management guru, Tom Peters, wrote a book entitled Thriving ...
Read More Go Big or Go Home!
By Mike Baer |
I keep hearing people talk about getting back to “business as usual.” I’d like to make a plea ...
Read More Ending a Hard Year
By Mike Baer |
It’s hard to come up with a “non-trite” way of saying this so, I’ll just say it. To ...
Read More Leading a Remote Workforce: Reinforcing Celebration
By Mike Baer |
Hint: this cannot be overdone! In every period of time, human beings love celebration and recognition. In a ...
Read More Leading a Remote Workforce—Reinforcing Community
By Mike Baer |
Maslow’s Hierarch of Needs Abraham Maslow, famous psychologist, made it very clear in the Hierarchy of Needs, that ...
Read More Remote Leadership (9): Building Community
By Mike Baer |
According to Sirota research, one of the three most impactful dimensions of employee engagement is a “sense of ...
Read More Leading a Remote Workforce (Part 7): Leadership Credibility
By Mike Baer |
There are three questions that followers ask of their leaders...constantly and now more than ever. Does this person ...
Read More Reinforcing Culture (Part III)
By Mike Baer |
Native Totem Pole Culture doesn’t grow on its own. It has to be nurtured. Strengthened. Reinforced. Constantly. How ...
Read More Are You Getting Time in Your Starbucks Chair?
By Mike Baer |
Customers sit in a Starbucks store in Seattle This blog is by no means an advertisement or endorsement for ...
Read More Reinforcing Culture (Part 2)
By Mike Baer |
Steel Bars for Reinforcing Concrete As important as culture is (and we’ve only scratched the surface), it’s something ...
Read More Leading a Remote Workforce (2): Reinforcing Culture
By Mike Baer |
Management Guru, Peter Drucker, once said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” He’s right, of course. Culture, not brilliant ...
Read More 5 Key Things to Reinforce in a Hybrid Workforce
By Mike Baer |
Leadership is always about the heart and in all circumstances. The COVID19 pandemic is no exception. Nor will ...
Read More Leading the Hybrid Workforce (Part 1)
By Mike Baer |
The Pandemic of 2020 has presented leaders with one of the greatest challenges in history: how do you ...
Read More Wanted: Empathy!
By Mike Baer |
Being able to feel with people and communicate that concern is one of the greatest gifts one human ...
Read More What is Your Company’s Higher Purpose?
By Mike Baer |
Simon Sinek has developed thought around a company's purpose; he calls it the “why?” It’s not a new ...
Read More Hire Experience
By Mike Baer |
During this COVID-19 economy, millions have lost their jobs and, while I’m grateful to see the strength of ...
Read More Finding the “New Normal”
By Mike Baer |
I have to admit, I hate the term “new normal.” The reason I hate it is that it ...
Read More FREE MARKETS, CAPITALISM, AND SUCCESS
By Mike Baer |
In these politically charged times, with all the hype and exaggeration in the media, it’s helpful to back ...
Read More Don’t Be a Useful Idiot
By Mike Baer |
Gossip is one of the oldest and most destructive of vices and it continues to devastate today. What ...
Read More Keys to Crisis Management
By Mike Baer |
Coming through COVID-19, every time we think of crisis we think of something of the magnitude of a ...
Read More Creative Compassion
By Mike Baer |
People are frightened; they are confused; and they need help. Compassion means that we feel their pain and we move ...
Read More We Built This
By Mike Baer |
Everything that is great about EmployBridge was built and strengthened by us. It wasn’t done for us or ...
Read More Another Special Day
By Mike Baer |
Can you believe it? Monday was Star Wars Day. Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo. And today? Well, the ...
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