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Hello, 2021
The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed. - Adam Grant This is the time of year when I normally try to slow down,...

Deb Kleinman
Jan 19, 20211 min read
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Ignore Good Advice
Last week I shared Lupine Collaborative's 6 principles of practice: Going Upstream Growth Mindset Creative, Resourceful and Whole Good...

Deb Kleinman
May 14, 20201 min read
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Don't Throw your Pen at your Board of Directors
It's easy to look at people like the Prime Minister of New Zealand and just focus on what a great and effective leader they are. We often...

Deb Kleinman
Apr 28, 20202 min read
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Plausible Deniability of Absence
Several things about meetings: (1) Many meetings are bad; (2) When bad meetings go online, they're even worse; and (3) We're all exhausted.

Deb Kleinman
Apr 22, 20202 min read
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Deb Kleinman
Apr 2, 20203 min read
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Adaptive Leadership is Hard
I work, as do many of you, in the realm of adaptive challenges. These are those challenges that are difficult to identify and easy to...

Deb Kleinman
Sep 23, 20191 min read
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Conflict, Communication, and Hope
In the last year, I've had the good fortune to reconnect with a college friend, Josie Raney, who has a shared interest in coaching and...

Deb Kleinman
Jul 11, 20193 min read
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Rough Roads Ahead Still, Sometimes
25 years ago, almost to the day, I drove east from Carleton College. I remember stopping on a back road in farm country somewhere in...

Deb Kleinman
Jun 20, 20192 min read
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Making Conflict Less Scary
I am not a huge fan of conflict. I have become less conflict averse in my middle years, but it still activates my lizard brain when...

Deb Kleinman
May 30, 20192 min read
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Connecting Across Difference: Not for the Faint of Heart
Having hard conversations across difference has been a big theme for me the last few weeks, I've been reading about it a lot, I taught...

Deb Kleinman
Apr 16, 20192 min read
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Really truly adopting new habits
I've been thinking a lot about how hard it is to embrace new habits, to the extent that they are just a part of my day to day life. As...

Deb Kleinman
Apr 4, 20192 min read
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Anxious Brain, Curious Brain
Yesterday, I visited 30 undergraduate students at Northern Colorado University and we talked about conflict frames in dialogue and...

Deb Kleinman
Feb 22, 20192 min read
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On Giving
I've been thinking a lot about giving lately. I recently finished Adam Grant's book, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives our...

Deb Kleinman
Feb 14, 20192 min read
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