Each week, I compile the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development that I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Great Place to Work:
“5 ways great workplaces build skills” (7-28-26).
“Some employees are often overlooked when companies are designing learning content. The Best Workplaces stand out for their ability to connect every employee with opportunities for advancement.”
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Randy Conley, Blanchard:
“Creating Environments Where Trust Flourishes” (7-21-26).
“Gardeners don’t force growth. They prepare the soil, provide water, remove weeds, and create the conditions where growth becomes possible.
Leadership works much the same way. Leaders can’t force trust or growth, but they can create conditions where both naturally flourish.”
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John Spence:
“How to Make It Safe for Your Team to Tell You the Truth” (8-3-26).
“Organizations don’t become high performing because everyone agrees. They achieve better results because people trust one another enough to speak honestly, challenge ideas respectfully, and solve problems while they’re still manageable. Creating that kind of environment is one of the most important obligations of leadership, and it begins with the example the leader sets every day.”
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Paul McCarthy:
“Recruitment Is One of the Clearest Reflections of Your Leadership Culture” (7-29-25).
“One idea I’ve explored is whether we should eventually develop better ways of understanding organizational culture from the candidate’s perspective, rather than only from the employee’s perspective.”
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Art Petty:
“It turns out, resistance to your change initiative is (mostly) a good sign” (7-28-26).
“Don’t let the flak derail your transformation initiative. Instead, dive in to better understand the core of any resistance and strive to build your coalition. Transformation initiatives succeed on the strength of relationships, not ideas.”
