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  • Mind Your Mind: A Self-Awareness Guide

    May 28, 2025 Josh Stephens

    Humans are truly remarkable—we’ve landed on the moon, taught machines to compose music, and created

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  • AI Rules the World… But Who Rules AI?

    April 8, 2025 Josh Stephens

    I think it’s safe to say that AI has hit the world stage by storm.

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  • Staying Productive and Happy: Work from Home Strategies

    March 31, 2025 Sarah Singh

    It’s one of those things that sounds too good to be true. Working from home.

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  • Don’t Go It Alone

    February 11, 2025 Josh Stephens

    Jim Rohn said, “you are the average of the five people you spend the most

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  • Be Intentional About Your Christmas Season

    December 20, 2024 Sarah Singh

    Merry Christmas! This is my absolute favorite time of year. It has a feel to

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  • 3 Dangerous things to avoid as a Decision Maker

    December 9, 2024 Josh Stephens

    There were 30-ish doctoral candidates standing on a street corner just outside of Washington DC. 

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  • Ways to Better Serve Your Leader

    November 22, 2024 Sarah Singh

    We’re an entitled people. There’s no question about it. You have the exceptions, and I

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  • 5 Ways to Develop your Intellect

    November 8, 2024 Josh Stephens

    “Develop your intellect” was a phrase my English Literature professor said in every class during

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Being on a Real Team

September 30, 2024 Jeremiah keeler 3 comments
A basketball going through the net.

Everyone was on their feet, not one person in the gym was sitting down. He drove right down the center of the lane, released the shot and as the buzzer sounded the ball bounced off the glass and went in the hoop! The crowd went wild, and it was a

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After “The Talk” with an Under-Performing Employee

September 17, 2024 Josh Stephens

Welcome back and thank you for taking a few moments to read my final installment of this three-part series on “Dealing with Under-Performing Employees”. If you’re just jumping in, read the first installment, “How to Deal with an Under-Performing Employee” and we’ll get you back here in no time. Following

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“The Talk” – Having Tough Conversations with Under-Performing Employees

September 3, 2024 Josh Stephens
tough conversation

At this point (part two of a three-part post) you’ve determined that the problem is not you. You’ve spent some time reflecting on what performance means in your context, so you can objectively conclude that your team member is under-performing and now it’s time for a tough conversation, aka. “The

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How to Deal with an Under-Performing Employee

August 16, 2024 Josh Stephens
A leader who is frustrated removing his glasses with his back up against the wall.

If you’re here, then you probably have an under-performing employee and need some guidance on what to do. The answer is not easy, and it’s not simple. Ideally, you can move the under-performing employee into a state of average performance or even highly productive performance. Unfortunately, that may not be

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Breaking Bread to Build Relationships

August 10, 2022 Josh Stephens
relationships

Is building relationships as hard for you as it has been for me? I’ve always thought it was easier to just relax in the corner without having a conversation, than trying to find the courage to talk to someone and then work really hard to carry a conversation. In this

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Battle Chaos with Stability

July 11, 2022 Josh Stephens 2 comments
Stability

Stability in chaos is difficult. Without it, people ride a rollercoaster of emotions that lead to panic and failure. Learn about the importance of stability in leadership, and how it impacts your teams.

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Too busy to hire!

June 22, 2022 Josh Stephens
hire even when busy

Leaders who are too busy to hire, aren’t thinking about things the right way. Here’s one of my stories about hiring when I was too busy to hire.

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Cloud Strategy – Are You Really Leading?

June 20, 2022 Josh Stephens
Cloud Strategy

Navigating a cloud strategy can be difficult. Finding a sherpa can be even more challenging. Learn more about my experience as I started down a major data & analytics cloud migration strategy.

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Israeli Study Finds – Natural immunity is longer lasting and stronger against infection than two-dose vaccine-induced immunity

September 1, 2021 Josh Stephens
Natural immunity COVID19

This review is of a recent study out of Israel comparing natural immunity with vaccinated immunity. The study found that natural immunity is significantly better.

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COVID-19 Study Review – Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals

August 25, 2021 Josh Stephens
vaccination vs natural immunity

This is a breakdown of a recent Cleveland Clinic COVID-19 study comparing natural immunity with immunity based on vaccination.

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