Each week, I collect 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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David Burkus:
“The Science of Active Listening for Leaders” (1-6-25).
“[A]ctive listening isn’t just about hearing words; it’s about showing your team that their voices matter. And when you listen with intention, you’ll find that your team responds with ideas, commitment, and trust — making everyone better in the process.”
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Great Place to Work:
“How Delta Air Lines makes leaders accessible to 100,000 global employees” (7-1-25).
“‘Everything starts with our people,’ says Toby Broberg, managing director of global talent management at Delta Air Lines. ‘We know that when we invest in our people and the employee experience, they bring their best selves to work. In turn, they take care of our customers and keep our customers coming back again and again.'”
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Eric Stann, University of Missouri:
“Hope is the key to a meaningful life, according to new research” (7-1-25).
“‘Experiencing life as meaningful is crucial for just about every good thing you can imagine in a person’s life,’ [researcher Laura King] said. ‘This cornerstone of psychological functioning is not a rare experience — it is available to people in their everyday lives and hope is one of the things that make life feel meaningful.'”
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Joe Folkman:
“The Surprising Power of Recognition: How Acknowledging Others Transforms Leadership” (7-3-25).
“In a world overflowing with metrics and KPIs, recognition remains one of the few leadership tools that speaks directly to the human heart—and that’s where real performance begins.”
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Kevin Dickinson, with Amy Edmondson:
“How to find success with the 4 conditions of ‘intelligent failure‘”
(5-21-25).
“‘The only way to succeed in any endeavor worth trying is to be willing to experiment, to try new things, knowing full well that many of them will yield failures. We have to embrace those kinds of failures because that’s where great advances and even joy come from.'”
