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Always Separate Praise and Feedback: Why ‘Sandwiching’ Doesn’t Work

Sandwiching: A technique used by supervisors to try to soften feedback: Scrape up a few nice words of appreciation to begin with

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TCC’s Vision: Principled Profit, Stakeholder-Oriented Capitalism

At the highest levels, The Collier Companies (TCC) is about creating principled prosperity in a sustainable manner through commerce, generating value in

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Mistakes, Psychological Safety, and Accountability

It is vital to establish psychological safety up front and create a culture where it is clear that the supervisor is there

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Three Tips for Feedback that Works

Clarify: Be up front about your intent from the very beginning. “My role is to help you succeed; any coaching or feedback

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Creating Change That Lasts Throughout the New Year

The life expectancy of most New Year’s Resolutions can be measured at best in days, some even mere hours. So how to

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Choiceless Choices

We see the world not as it is but as we are. In life we tend not to choose from the entire

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I Once Left My Christmas Tree Up for 3 Years…

Why you might ask, and I assure you my wife did… repeatedly : ) Well, it helped that it was artificial and

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Consider Increasing Your Error Budget

We all understand, the more at bats opportunities you have, the more hits you can have. A major goal of increasing your

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NSC Commencement Speech to Fall 2025 UF Law Grads

More than 4 decades ago, I sat where you are today, graduating from one of the finest law schools in the country,

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Do You Have Akrasia?

Akrasia (ἀκρασία) is from Ancient Greece and refers to a “lack of self-control” or a tendency to “act against one’s better judgment.”

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Deliberate Ignorance aka The Ostrich Effect: Friend or Foe?

We live in an era of incredible access to… Information? Data? Misinformation? We are ceaselessly bombarded, messaged constantly… often with meaningless content

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Boldness is a Force Multiplier

Boldness opens doors that stay closed to the timid or tentative and converts possibility into reality, breaks the grip of fear. Boldness