ARTICLES

Insights and Resources for Business Growth

Thoughtful articles on leadership, teams, and performance, written for people running real businesses.
Human Resources

Ask Different Questions

We can learn a lot about ourselves and about business from people we’ve ...
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Chuck Violand

Human Resources

Falling In Love

What is it about small business owners that causes so many of us to fall...
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Chuck Violand

Human Resources

Driver Education, Part II

Developing as a supervisor or manager demands a different set of skills ...
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Chuck Violand

Civility At Work - Coworkers Getting Along
Teams and Culture

Being Civil At Work

Civility At Work, Part I Civility seems to have gone out of style in the...
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Chuck Violand

Teams and Culture

Assumptions

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Father Ollie and Father Sven were past...
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Teams and Culture

Cover Me

Nothing suggests excitement or suspense quite like someone saying, “Cove...
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Chuck Violand

Teams and Culture

Fixing and Healing

My wife and I just had a landscaping project done at our house. As I wat...
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Chuck Violand