Seth's Blog

JULY 1, 2025

A sea slug sees far more colors than you do, and you probably see more than a profoundly color-blind person. Who’s right? We each carry our own version of reality, our own story about what happened, what’s around us and how things work. Our chosen reality serves two useful purposes: First, it binds us to the others in our circle. If you seek to communicate, speaking Esperanto in Nashville isn’t going to help very much–you do better assuming, as others do, that English is

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Up Your Culture

JULY 1, 2025

The 'Why' Factor: How Purpose-Driven Leadership Boosts Team Performance In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving work environment, effective leadership goes beyond setting goals and managing tasks - it requires a clear sense of purpose. Purpose-driven leadership, which centers on aligning team efforts with a deeper mission or reason for being, has emerged as a powerful force for enhancing team performance.

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Your Work, Your Way

JULY 1, 2025

In a previous post , I introduced the Smalley Personality quiz , a quick take on personality types in the workplace. The types are categorized as animals: Lion, Otter, Golden Retriever, and Beaver. Otters tend to be energetic, optimistic, and enthusiastic, especially about new, shiny ideas. They’re team players and the team cheerleaders. Beavers, on the other hand, live for accuracy, precision, and finding problems to point out, if not exactly to solve.

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CMOE

JULY 1, 2025

Effective team building is an ongoing effort and process, not a one-time event. It requires ongoing effort and strategic investment in your people to build collaboration, trust, and growth for the organization’s long-term success. Yet many leaders struggle with the same question: How do we know if it’s working? Today, only 43% of workforce members express they have a positive team climate (“team members value one another’s contributions, care about one another’s well-being, and have input into h

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement

There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how

Strategy

Think Reliablility

JULY 1, 2025

A question came up recently in one of our Cause Mapping ® workshops: How do you keep management from influencing the outcome of root cause analysis? The integrity of an RCA depends on staying objective and sticking to the facts. When pressures from leadership creep in, they can unintentionally—or sometimes, deliberately—shape the investigation’s findings, leading to inaccurate conclusions.

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The Coaching Blog

JULY 1, 2025

It is lovely to work with clients. But it is not lovely to sit there, waiting for your client to appear on Zoom, and then not have your client appear. There you are, just sitting there. A minute passes. Another minute passes. You twiddle your thumbs. You check your email or your phone to see if your client has been in touch. You wait. Another minute passes.

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GetSmarter

JULY 1, 2025

Introdução Este Aviso de Privacidade (“Aviso de Privacidade”) descreve como a GetSmarter, uma empresa 2U, LLC e suas afiliadas e subsidiárias (“GetSmarter”, “nós” ou “nos”) coletam, usam, divulgam e processam as informações pessoais que coletamos por meio de sites, produtos, serviços e aplicativos que se referem a este Aviso de Privacidade (em conjunto, “os Serviços”).

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McKinsey

JULY 1, 2025

Skip to main content Deploying AI at speed and scale: Talking with ING’s Marnix van Stiphout July 1, 2025 | Interview How a focus on scope, safety, and speed helped the Dutch multinational bank deploy its gen AI transformation quickly and effectively. In the short time since generative AI became available to all, ING has moved rapidly to adopt, deploy, and scale the technology.

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McKinsey

JULY 1, 2025

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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