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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Randy Conley, Blanchard:
“Leaders as Environmental Curators” (6-25-26).
“Leaders shape the environment people experience at work.
You can feel the difference almost immediately.
Some workplaces energize people while others quietly drain them. Some teams operate with trust, adaptability, and healthy accountability, while others struggle with confusion, tension, or burnout.”
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Soren Kaplan:
“The Biggest Work Stressor Has a Simple Fix” (5-30-26).
“When people know what they’re accountable for, what success looks like, and which calls are theirs to make, they stop spending energy navigating stressful ambiguity and start spending it on their work. Motivation returns. Engagement follows. Performance improves.”
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John Spence:
“Five Capabilities Successful Companies Share” (6-3-26).
“Effective leaders are exceptionally good at simplifying things. They create clarity around priorities, decision-making, expectations, and the work that deserves focused attention.”
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Andy Lopata:
“Why People Don’t Trust Their Leaders” (5-20-26).
“[D]eeper trust is rooted in how we make people feel. People don’t trust leaders purely because they are competent. They trust leaders who make them feel seen, heard, valued, and safe.”
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Julie Cooper:
“Seth Godin: Why remarkable still matters in the age of AI”
(5-25-26).
“‘Strategy is a philosophy of becoming,’ Godin says.
‘It’s the work of deciding who you want to become and who you will help your customers become. Your practical and actual purpose. It’s the one thing you’re optimizing for and the one group of people you’re focused on.'”
