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Gold Nuggets - 6 top pieces of content for growth -|- Last week I wrote about a few top places to go to receive growth focused content each week. Along these same lines, I want to share some of the best...

Mining for Gold - 5 top sources for growth-rich content -|- A couple of times each month I encounter a very familiar situation when interacting with direct reports, peers, or friends. Another person will ask some version of “What books...

Improving Performance - 5 steps to turn bad to good -|- For the 10 years that I have overseen the Chick-fil-A location that I manage, there have been lots of highs and a few lows regarding customer satisfaction performance. Strategically...

The Second-Best Article in the World - How to be successful -|- Last week I wrote about the fact that for me articles are far more efficient for growing oneself than books or podcasts. In that post I also shared...

The Best Article in the World - The difference between successful people and failures -|- If you had bumped into me 8 or 10 years ago and asked how I was growing myself personally at that time, the answer would...

Traits of Success - 12 things that the successful, unsuccessful do -|- Why is it that some who have more than they could ever need are miserable, while others who possess much less are satisfied? We know that this phenomenon...

Underperformance - Causes and cures for floundering performance -|- If I’ve seen it once I’ve seen it a hundred times while leading at Chick-fil-A over the years. You’ll get a young professional a year or two out of college with...

Professional - 8 Marks of a True Professional -|- A few years ago, a National Football League player made the decision to quit playing for his team, Miami, in the middle of the game. 3 years before that, the exact...

Management Miss - Are you too LITTLE of a micromanager?! -|- Every single aspect of life requires balance. Spend too much time at work, and your personal relationships will suffer. Spend too little time at work, and you will be...

S's and W's - Is it better to grow strengths or neutralize weaknesses? -|- In a culture centered around grades, performance reviews, and various kinds of measured performance, the one-million-dollar question often comes up: “Should I focus on maximizing my...