Leadership can be challenging. Responsibilities can take you away from your true north. Changes happen which can make you feel like a fish out of water. Failure happens and you have to determine what to do with that. Sometimes...
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Embracing imperfection as a leader
Overcoming obstacles: watch, learn, adjust
The fun part of business is that rarely do you find someone who comes to work with ill intent or a work process that was put in place to cause problems. The intention is almost always to do good, it’s just that sometimes the “how” isn’t the...
Read MorePitfalls of Pride (how to be humble and not let the title get to your head)
On my desk, at the corporate office for the health system I work for as well as in my office at home, I have a small scrap of paper taped down. All it says is ‘pride,’ with a circle around it and a line through it. Like ghostbusters, I...
Read MoreLeadership: Knowing when to be there
Sometimes it’s obvious. A figure stands in the doorway both sudden and timid, wanting a conversation, “Do you have a minute?” Something is wrong and they need to talk. It’s serious. They’re worried. Sometimes it’s more...
Read MoreGolden handcuffs: be careful what you wish for
There’s a situation out there called golden handcuffs. It’s a problem some might argue they’d really, very much like to have. Be careful what you wish for. Today I’m going to write about three people I know. The first…...
Read MoreNow more than ever: head off inequity when leading
Editor's note: Andrew Grimm is a contributing columnist at GreatNews.Life. I grew up in an underprivileged housing community with my divorced mother fighting to bring herself an education and lift us out of poverty (which she did). No one paid...
Read MoreManaging millennials – don’t do it.
I’ve heard it more than a few times. Rhetoric around managing millennials, complaints about work ethic, dedication, value differences, and on, and on. There’s one major rule on managing millennials and the rest of the article suggests ways to...
Read MoreLeadership During Crisis Management, an IT Leader’s Perspective
Editor's note: Andrew Grimm is a contributing columnist at GreatNews.Life. With luck, you have predicted certain business challenges and have a solid plan to manage them, especially in times of crisis. But if you haven’t, there’s still hope to be...
Read MoreKilling the John Wayne leadership concept at work
Editor's note: Andrew Grimm is a contributing columnist at GreatNews.Life. John Wayne is still alive. I’ve seen him with my own eyes. He rode in one day, high on his saddle, and took out the bad guys one at a time with a six-shooter in each...
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