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Confidential Information – What to Say When You Can’t Say Anything

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | Feb 5, 2024 | By Karin Hurt and David Dye, powerful phrases, Winning Well | 3 comments

Handle confidential information with candor and care to build trust It can feel like a trap. Someone asks you a direct question about confidential information. Maybe it’s a personnel matter. A sensitive business negotiation or a product launch. In all these scenarios,...

Make It, Don’t Fake It with Sabrina Horn

by David Dye | Nov 19, 2021 | Podcast, Winning Well | 0 comments

It’s a cliche you’ve undoubtedly heard more than once: Fake it until you make it. The problem is that the pressure to succeed can drive leaders to exaggerate their strengths, minimize weaknesses, bend the truth, and sacrifice the very authenticity that...

Massive Failures? What Great Leaders Do Next

by Karin Hurt and David Dye | May 15, 2018 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt and David Dye, Confident Humility, Relationships, Winning Well | 0 comments

What do you do when you’ve screwed up and everyone knows it? Your failures weren’t just mistakes in judgment…you let yourself down. You didn’t keep your commitment. You hurt people you are supposed to help. Your team looks at you with disappointment....

5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of November 6, 2017

by David Dye | Nov 11, 2017 | By David Dye, Top Leadership Articles | 1 comment

Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have added my comment about...

The Power of Always: Making Commitments You Can Keep

by Karin Hurt | Nov 13, 2012 | Authenticity & Transparency, By Karin Hurt | 7 comments

I will always brush my teeth before I go to bed. That’s pretty easy. I will always exercise at least 5 times a week. Unless, I get stuck in the airport, my kid gets sick, there’s a hurricane, A bit harder. As leaders we have long lists of intentions. We do...