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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In this podcast, Kim Mills interviews Guy Itzchakov, a professor in the Department of Human Services at the University of Haifa:
“Episode 386: Why listening well is harder—and more powerful—than you think, with Guy Itzchakov, PhD” (7-1-26).
“[W]hat differentiates high-quality listening from ordinary listening or everyday listening is the listener’s attempt to really understand the speaker and the positive intention toward the speaker. [T]his is what Carl Rogers referred to back more than 60 years ago as a nonjudgmental approach.”
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Soren Kaplan:
“Loneliness isn’t about being alone in a room. It’s the gap between the relationships you have and the ones you actually need.
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Build a peer network of people who have no stake in your decisions, whether that’s an outside group, a coach, or an executive program.”
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Larry Robertson:
“The story the facts don’t tell, and why regaining it matters so much” (7-16-26).
“[Peter Drucker] wanted to push leaders to return to the core of why they began the business in the first place, even why they sought to lead. …. That unencumbered view, he understood, that greater story, was what empowered a leadership team to think and act agilely and effectively into the future – a future guaranteed to be unlike the past or even the present.”
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Stephen Joseph, with an excerpt from his book Authentic: How to Be Yourself and Why It Matters:
“Are You Living an Authentic Life?” (6-17-26).
“Colloquially, we talk about being ourselves, but when we get deep into what authenticity is, it is more accurate to say that it is more about not being the self you are but becoming the self you could be.”
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Adam Grant et al.:
“The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week” (6-22-26).
“Case by case, there may be good reasons for teams to work together in person. As a general rule, though, it turns out that ordering people back to the office full time is a power and status move. It’s a signature strategy of leaders who exhibit narcissistic qualities.”
