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Practical writing on leadership, culture, change, and people.
Jon began writing about leadership because too many people were working for bad bosses and disengaged organizations. These articles preserve his practical ideas on building better leaders, better teams, and better workplaces.
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What Does Success Really Mean to You?
I was a guest on a recent podcast and the host asked me an interesting question: What’s my definition of success? I actually had…
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Let Go and Let Others Grow
You’ve probably seen this yourself – a leader with a control problem. Many bosses would rather die than let go of the control they…
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Employee Motivation Starts Here
In the movie Criminal, Kevin Costner plays a convict whom the CIA chooses for an experimental procedure. With the help of a top neuroscientist and…
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Looking to Start a Business? Read this One Book First
Close to 4.5 million new businesses were started in the United States in 2020, making it the highest year on record. New business start-ups…
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Groundbreaking Leadership: A Conversation with Stephanie Treece
On the 12th episode of the Deep Leadership podcast released last March 2020, we had the pleasure of speaking with Stephanie Treece, a trailblazer…
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Take Care of your Employees
I met with the CEO of one of my large customers last year and he said something I will never forget. When describing…
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3 Reasons why Engineers make the Best CEOs
When you look to develop the leadership talent in your organization, where do you go? Many companies look to sales, marketing, finance, or…
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Rational, Natural, and Open Systems of Organizations in a Post-Pandemic Economy
If the average leader were to draw a picture of an organizational model, they would likely draw some version of the classic pyramid model…
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Leadership Article Don’t Ever Start a Band: Six Things to Consider Before Becoming an Entrepreneur
Jimmy Buffett’s hit song, The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful, starts off with his band members demanding things from him. “Where’s my…