Each week, I compile the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Daniel Goleman:
“Trust Isn’t a Skill, It’s a Survival Strategy” (6-30-25).
“One of the simplest ways to build trust is to genuinely care how someone is doing—asking about not just deliverables, but about a person’s well-being, energy, and sense of meaning in the work. Trust expert Robert Hurley calls this ‘benevolent concern.'”
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Michael Blanding:
“Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review” (6-30-25).
“[M]any managers make the mistake of doing backward-looking assessments of an employee’s work during the previous year and fail to initiate forward-looking discussions about career advancement opportunities. What they should do instead, [Katherine B. Coffman] says, is clearly outline potential paths to promotions and provide advice for how to get there.”
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Laura Kramer:
“20 hard-earned business lessons from entrepreneurs at the top of their game” (7-24-25)
“Seek out like-minded collaborators”
Vania Leles —
“The first PR firms that I approached told me to tone down the African influence as it would be a hard sell with editors – so I chose to work with someone else. The whole purpose of founding this business was to celebrate that African heritage.”
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Sanjay Sehgal:
“The Spiritual Side of Entrepreneurship” (3-4-25).
“It was only when I aligned my work with a larger purpose that everything changed. When I started seeing my business as a way to solve real problems and serve people, success followed naturally.”
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McKinsey Health Institute, 2022:
“Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem?” (5-27-22).
“Across the 15 countries in the survey, toxic workplace behavior is the single largest predictor of negative employee outcomes, including burnout symptoms.”
