Alicia McKay
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Public time is public money
What do you do for work?” Gulp. When you work for the government, sometimes it’s tempting not to tell people. Primarily if you work in local...
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Friends at work.
I often meet leaders with an “I don’t go to work to make friends” kind of attitude. I get that, I really do.One of the reasons I’ve never lasted...
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Get Out of the Weeds You Love
Do you miss the "real work"? The 'paradox of leadership', according to Greg McKeown, is that as we advance in seniority, we can become so...
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Celebrate Failure
Do you think it’s OK to fail? What about your teams, do they feel able to? I’ve had some interesting conversations with people recently about...
Act as if: how your identity changes your habits
Goals motivate us When I started running, I could only motivate myself to train if I had an event coming up. I started at a 5K, and a few years...
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How to become a CEO
We caught up on some of our Google analytics last week, and there was a surprising nugget in there. One of the most common search terms that...