November 16, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			Big hat, no cattle. This is a Texas put-down for someone who is all talk and no action with no substance of power behind their words. We see this as just another form of the Imposter Syndrome. Not only do...
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				November 13, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			Let's imagine for a minute that you are a contractor and have a contract to build a brand-new office building. You start to subcontract the job to carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and everyone else you need to build this building. Now...
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				November 10, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			If only leadership development were that easy. Unfortunately, many believe that leadership development is a matter of reading a book, attending a seminar, or following the counsel of a supervisor on an annual review that says you need to be...
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				November 01, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			We are in constant awe of the brilliant minds that produce the most amazing technology, architecture, agricultural, medical breakthroughs, and machines that make our world what it is today, as well as what the future will be. But does STEM...
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				October 26, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			If you were the hiring manager looking for top leadership talent, would you hire yourself? Do you think you have what it takes to lead others into the future? Are you the tough leader with the skills who can face...
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				October 19, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			A Scotoma is a partial loss of vision or blind spot in an otherwise normal visual field. So how does this relate to leaders and organizations? The facts are based on global research from Gallup, Deloitte, and similar organizations that...
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				October 10, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			Leaders who reward great teams, or individual performance with recognition, attention, and appreciation help to cultivate even higher levels of engagement and loyalty to the organization. This is a good thing — up to a point. It is when leaders...
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				October 02, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			HR deals with many issues in organizations. Some of these challenges include recruitment, retention and motivation, leadership development, and corporate culture to name a few. Seasoned, HR leaders with true leadership skills and talents are invaluable to any organization. However,...
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				September 26, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			We have all sat through them. Those monotonous, ineffective, inefficient, soul-sucking meetings. They are generally led by someone who for the most part, spends the entire time talking just to hear their own voice while the team sits in a...
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				September 05, 2023
				
					Rich Baron and Maikel Bailey				
			 
			Why is it that in so many organizations, HR is viewed as the villians and not employee advocates? We all have the tendency to divide up the world into two groups: Us and Them. It's easy to make HR people...
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