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How to Encourage Employee Autonomy—and Why That Should Matter to You as a Leader

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When you’re an employee, you crave autonomy. You want the freedom and empowerment to make—and own—decisions. And you realize just how hard it can be to grant autonomy to direct reports, even though you were once in their shoes. This is a normal reaction and not a reason to think you aren’t cut out for leadership.

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Why a Compassionate Leader Gets Results

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How do you judge good leadership ? When you evaluate an employee, you measure their individual achievements. When you consider a division’s success, you look at profitability. Since ROI equals results, it’s logical to judge effective leadership based on team outcomes: Did we achieve our goals? OK, forget it.

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7 Apps to Teach Kids About Money

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Budgeting and building credit are only the beginning—you also have student loans, mortgage rates and maybe even cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Forget about it. At least, you can forget about it if you sit your kids down to explain the importance of a solid credit score. But for a kid?

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Embrace the Chaos and Other Lessons from ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

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This is SUCCESS Movie Rewind , the once-weekly, spoiler-free-within-reason movie discussion podcast that combs through the world of film for nuggets of wisdom that can help you level up in business and life. You don’t have to have seen the film we’re discussing, and you don’t have to go watch it afterward—though I think you’ll want to.

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5 Life Lessons I Learned from My Father

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You see, she was raised by a coach (me)—a dad who spent many professional hours working with CEOs and entrepreneurs learning how to be better leaders and how to make their businesses run more efficiently. Here’s some of the advice that still rings true for Madison today, and could apply for your life and business as well.

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3 Ways to Silence Your Inner Critic When Trying Something New

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Have you ever wanted to try something new, but as soon as you started thinking about it, that nagging voice in your head started telling you that you can’t—or shouldn’t? 3 Ways to Silence Your Inner Critic When Starting Something New 1. Instead, ask yourself whether you should try this new thing.

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3 Ways to Practice Radical Kindness with Your Employees

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That’s why it’s time to practice radical kindness in business, whether you have 10 employees or 10,000. Are you ready to add some kindness to your business? The Stearns have three suggestions to keep your employees happy and healthy. Put your people before profit. Why don’t we go back at it [this way]?

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