by Franklin Wordsmith | Jun 2, 2021 | Leadership, Video
Choose to Be More Effective than Just Reacting or Winging It I once worked at a company where the chairman seemed to be lying in wait for someone to screw up. When that happened, he would fire off an email to all of us about the offending misstep. He seemed certain...
by Franklin Wordsmith | May 27, 2021 | Neuroscience
Know Our Lazy Brains Need to Wake Up The term “post-truth era” started showing up in 2016. It stands for “the disappearance of shared objective standards for truth.” This results in a blurring of lines among facts, alternative facts, knowledge, opinion,...
by Franklin Wordsmith | May 27, 2021 | Leadership
Your Most Powerful Gift as a Leader I was doing a program last week, called “You Can’t Be a Leader without Being Biased” — all about unconscious bias. During the Q&A afterward, someone asked how can we reach unreachable people. Those who...
by Franklin Wordsmith | May 27, 2021 | Leadership
Make It about Your People and Place Think about all of the people you’ve reported to over the years. If you’re like me, the first thing that pops up is some aspect of their personality: “She was afraid of confrontation so never stood up for us as...
by Franklin Wordsmith | May 27, 2021 | Leadership, Uncategorized, Video
You Can Only Avoid Sweating the Small Stuff when You KNOW It’s Small! Growing up in Minnesota, our neighbors were fond of using the expression, “She couldn’t see the forest for the trees.” That can be the same issue with not paying attention to...
