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Hey Everyday Leader,What Pervades Your Identity?

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hey-Everyday-Leader-What-Pervades-Your-Identity-1.mp3 [I am going to write about Martin Luther King, Jr. next week.] My friend Berke’ Brown shared some psychological research that stuck with me....

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Leaders Say No. Will You?

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Leaders-Say-No-Will-You.mp3 2020 Sucked!  It brought a lot of suffering on a lot of levels and to too many people. And the suffering will continue, especially...

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Thank You For Hearing Me

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Thank-You-For-Hearing-Me.mp3 I recently fell in love again with Sinead’s haunting song, the title for this week’s missive, Thank You For Hearing Me. Thank you for hearing...

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Thanksgiving-Colored Glasses

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Thanksgiving-Colored-Glasses.mp3 May I jumpstart your Thanksgiving week? I enjoin you to lead those around you to Give Thanks. As Kouzes & Posner wrote, and I...

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Long Dark Days – Piercing Leadership Light

I loved hearing the body of this message and kind of like the way I read it. Perhaps the 2:46 reading is worth a listen...

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Can We Come Out Now?

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Can-We-Come-Out-Now.mp3 Has the smoke cleared?  Are the hurricanes gone? Has the virus stopped spreading? Could we be on the eve of the “peaceful transition [or...

Fuel and Nutrition for Leadership

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Fuel-and-Nutrition-for-Leadership.m4a Two weeks ago, Ashton wrote on values, reminding us to ground ourselves in what we hold most dear. Then, Dan spoke to the importance...

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A Simple Strategy for the Courageous Manager

First, the backstory. I had back-to-back meetings last week with a client I’ve been consulting to and another I’m coaching. On a group Zoom call,...

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Reconnecting with Core Values in Turbulent Times

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Reconnecting-with-core-values.mp3 By Ashton Fandel of LeadingX2 As the strange cadence of this year continues, one might feel somewhat like a flag, flapping in the wind....

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Scary(ier) Season – Truly

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Scarier-Season-TRULY.mp3 Five weeks ago, I started writing about about leadership strategies during pre-election Scary Season. That was before RBG passed, before the debate debacle, and...

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Leading Through Scary Season – Part 4 – You Can Do It!

By Laura Andersen of LeadingX2 Last weekend I taught a five-year-old how to use a badminton racket. She started off open-minded to learning and eager...

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Leading Through Scary Season – Part 3 – (Don’t)Kill the Leader

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Leading-Through-Scary-Season-Part-3-Dont-Kill-the-Leader.mp3 This is the third in a series on leading in these scary times – with Covid, economic pressure, BLM and the reaction(s) to it,...

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Leading Through Scary Season – Part 2 – Bulls

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Leading-Through-Scary-Season-Part-2-Bullseye.mp3 Since I wrote last week, Scary Season has gotten even scarier, with the fires and horrific air quality in the Bay Area. Today, one...

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Leading Through Scary Season – Part 1

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Leading-Through-Scary-Times-Part-1.mp3 I used to think of this 60-day lead-up to the election as Silly Season. Now it feels like Scary Season.  In the coming series...

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‘Why am I here?’ Eradicating listlessness on your team

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Why-am-I-here.m4a By Laura Andersen It is way too easy now. A meeting gets put on your calendar about a project. No preparation instructions, no asks...

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Human Animals Pause

Ronald Heifetz, JFK School of Government at Harvard. https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Human-Animals-Pause.mp3 Heifetz would drive people crazy, when… He would p-a-u-s-e Uncomfortably L O N G 1…..2…..3 seconds....

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Committing to Act, Preparing to Lead

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Gentle Leadership

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Are You Leading or Are You Led?

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Are-You-Leading-or-Are-You-Led.mp3 Last week, I wrote about how in-your-face Covid has been for all of us. Not equally, of course. Some of your families may be...

Your Pandemic Challenge: Habits or Opportunities?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download The exhausting challenge. The amazing opportunity. Resilience . . . Plus . . . At no time in...

Leading with reverence for time

Podcast: Play in new window | Download https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Reverence-for-Time.m4a Recently, I had the honor of interviewing a friend of mine, Niket Desai, for a leadership course...

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Do Black Voices Matter To You?

WearyResilient – BothAnd

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Choose YOUR Multiplier Effect: This week we’re matching donations

Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Laura Andersen of LeadingX2 https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Choose-your-multiplier-effect.m4a “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been...

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The Covid Shutdown: Breathing the Spirit of Leadership.

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Covid-Shutdown-breathing-the-spirit-of-leadership.mp3 [Tweet “The Ego is captive to urgency. The Spirit breathes in the calm.”  – DGM] Covid has been offering us all a chance to...

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Pandemic Week X Leadership 3 Steps

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Faith, Facts & Goals: Leadership for the Long Haul

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Faith-Facts-and-Goals.m4a By Laura Andersen of LeadingX2 This week I talked to a customer-facing manager while he prepared lunch for his kids. In the past month,...

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Generosity the Leadership Antidote

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Generosity-the-Leadership-Antidote.mp3 The pandemic wears on. People get more restless with the abiding uncertainty, wrankling repetition, and worry. True in homes. True in nursing homes. True...

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Leaders Covid Boundaries

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Covid-Boundaries-and-Leadership.mp3 Today I begin a writing partnership with Greg McBeth. Greg’s an engineer, co-founder with his wife Falon, consultant to entrepreneurs, and great writer. He’s also...

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Cohabiting-by-2 During Covid-19

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Cohabit-by-2-Covid-19-Strategies-4.mp3 It’s a painful irony that we share both our deepest and ennobling love, yet also reserve our worst behavior for those who are closest...

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From Stress to Strength: Opportunity in Crisis for Partners at Home and Work

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Strengthen-Under-Stress.m4a From Laura Andersen of LX2. “So… what should we have for dinner tonight?” For the past two years, I’ve wanted to ask that question...

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Back to Leadership Basics in This Time of Danger

https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Back-to-Leadership-Basics-in-This-Time-of-Danger-1.mp3 I have always written R2L for “everyday leaders,” because the functions of leadership can be served by anyone. You can lead up or across,...

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Leader – Ask Why is this Happening FOR me?

I’m becoming like my old man who couldn’t assemble anything physical but loved to take words apart and put them back together. I wish I’d...

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Wait – What if you AREN’T happy to see a key colleague – what then?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Thanks for the comments and emails about last week’s blog on Aunt Linda and leaders like her who...

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How An Everyday Leader Led Like God

Podcast: Play in new window | Download In a hurry? Skip to the last three paragraphs, however, know that this column heads in one direction...

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Leading by 2 – an idea worth spreading

For six years I have been looking at the nature of Leading by Two.  I have been coaching pairs 2-at-a-time, running workshops on great pairs...

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Sidin’ With Biden – Touch and Leadership

Podcast: Play in new window | Download The prevailing wisdom of the moment is right and fair:  Individuals have boundaries and each person should be...

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I Flip-Flop – Rage and Resilience

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Last week I wrote about Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo raging at a freshman player, Aaron...

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Which One Leads More Effectively – and the role of rage

Podcast: Play in new window | Download About ten years ago, Duke Coach K for Krzyzewsky was cast in a commercial where, with his nasally...

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What if you were leading blind – because often you are!

A week ago, I spoke to 1,500 people from the TEDx Berkeley stage at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.  I was blind. I...

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What the Front Lines Want from Supervisors

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Women, Men, are Turning the Corner

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Thank you to the 117 of you who have answered my 2-question survey on first level supervisors. I...

Every Good Supervisor of Others . . .

Students come back to me or write to me: “Professor Mulhern (or usually, Dan), my manager clearly never took your class!” And they explain.  Many...

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Who’s a Great Partner and What Do You Look For?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download My co-writer, John Gillis, says “No one leads alone. No one.”  When you pull away the perceptual film...

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What You Can Learn from Two California Bellwether Leaders

Podcast: Play in new window | Download I posted a variation of this article on LinkedIn last week. Ever wonder what a bellwether is? It’s...

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New Year’s Plan – From Great to Good

Podcast: Play in new window | Download For the first time in the 20 years I’ve been writing a New Years message, I am contradicting...

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2018 What Will Make the Next YEARS Better

Podcast: Play in new window | Download I sent out a short list of good books from 2018 on Friday. You can read my mini-reviews...

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Books that Have Been Gifts to Me 2018

1.  Being your best self. Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope. I would describe Anne Lamott as a seeker, seer, and humorist. She always brings me...

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A Short Tender Story of Leading By Two

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Today’s story is short and stands on its own – a tender example of LeadingX2: James Addison Baker...

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Who’s Got Your Back?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download The Irish priests in Boston know their politics. Still, Fr. McInnes’ prescience and sophistication jolted me.  During our...