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Leadership Nudge® 395 – Prize, Don’t Praise

August 10, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Praise is part of the manipulative strategy of bosses. Leaders dealing with adults observe not evaluate, and prize not praise. Here, David explains the difference and why it matters. Hey, we put out a post recently where we talked about praise being a manipulation, a manipulative tool that bosses use to control people and to...

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Leadership Nudge® 387 – An Example of Redwork and Bluework

May 25, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Leaders use bluework to keep projects moving in the right direction. The bluework will put the project pieces in logical order so the redwork can be done more effectively. Here’s David with an example. I live in Florida. And I’m here at a friend’s yard who has a big deficiency because they have no swimming...

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Leadership Nudge® 378 – Balance Redwork & Bluework

March 9, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Being deliberate about THINKING while DOING a task will help you balance redwork and bluework. Watch David explain with an everyday example from the kitchen. To learn more about redwork and bluework, read Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say — and What You Don’t. Get your autographed copy here. Hey, you...

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Leadership Nudge® 369 – How Continuous Improvement Works

December 15, 2021by Sandy Wilmer

Continuous improvement is a balance between ‘thinking’ and ‘doing.’ Watch David explain. I’m here in Tahiti and the shape of this bridge represents how we think about what some people call “continuous improvement,” or the balance between thinking and doing. The flat treads represent the action moving forward. The vertical risers represent the pause /...

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Leadership Nudge® 337 – Discontinuous Improvement

January 13, 2021by Sandy Wilmer

We have to actually use a process for a while after making a change in order to measure the effect of the change. If we are trying to tweak a process continuously, we never stabilize the process enough to really know the effect of any given change. Improve in steps to increase the learning along...

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Leadership Nudge® 336 – How to Structure Work for Better Decisions

January 6, 2021by Sandy Wilmer

Organizations are biased towards continuing whatever action they are doing. Leaders want to inject moments of thinking and decision into this continuous stream of action. This makes it safe to change the course if needed. Organizations are biased towards continuing whatever action that they’re doing. The reason for this is because we’ve made the decision...