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🌟 Great team catch up outside of the office yesterday! Taking time to connect as a team beyond the office environment is crucial to building a great team. Social events not only build bonds, but they boost morale and collaboration in the workplace 😁 Here's to many more! 🥂 #teambuilding #worklifebalance #EmployeeEngagement #TeamSantander

I was still asleep early on Easter Sunday 1999 when my cell phone jolted me awake. It was my boss, the CEO of Saab Worldwide, calling from Sweden, and he wasn’t calling to wish me a pleasant holiday! He was so angry with our sales numbers that he wanted me to fly to Sweden that very evening for a “discussion.” That meant a red-eye flight with a meeting on Monday at 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time—not exactly what I had been picturing for my Easter day. Some back story…in the first quarter of 1999 product shortages and shipping issues dented our sales, and we missed our numbers by 20 percent. I knew the problem was an anomaly and not representative of the positive direction our North American operation was moving. As the most senior executive on the continent, I didn’t have to worry about an angry boss storming into my office and demanding to know why I hadn’t met my numbers. Instead, he summoned me to his continent. When I arrived in Sweden, I felt like a naughty schoolboy being called to the principal’s office. They expected me to take my punishment on the very public stage of our global corporate headquarters. In front of my counterparts from around the world, as well as top management in Sweden, our CFO trashed my single quarter of missed sales targets. In the years since that public flagellation, the particulars of what was said and why—as well as my feelings of defensiveness and anger—have melted away. Yet there is one unforgettable aspect of that experience that changed my leadership style for good: from that moment forward, I determined never to publicly admonish people in a way that would diminish their dignity. Have you ever had an experience like this? How has it changed the way you lead today?

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Dave Resseguie is the real deal. He helped me shape the framework of my business. He was also integral in shifting my mindset from scarcity to abundance. #shoutout #testimonial #businessplan

After the Ourspace chapter closed, it took me a while to find what I was looking for next. Shutting down my startup was the most introspective I've ever been about my career. I thought a lot about what I wanted to opt into, and more importantly what I wanted to opt out of. Circuit is the outlier I was looking for - bootstrapped, profitable, intentionally small, and exciting yet sustainable growth. Equally as important, I was looking for a place that's as intentional about *how* they work as *what* they work on. And when I say intentional, I mean it: We don't use Slack, OKRs, or scrum. And there are very, very few meetings. All of this is by careful design. And takes immense courage to not simply mirror "normal" ways of working just because everyone else is doing it. It's this kind of nonconformity that got me especially excited about working with Jack Underwood and the team at Circuit. Onward!

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How much do I love working with our team. We are friends, colleagues, mentors to each other. And we dance together from all corners of the country because connection before content is key! pLink Leadership Also I can't be sure but it looks like Cindy Jackson PCC (she/her) is about to booty bump me! #getonthedancefloor #positiveleadership #plinkleadership #loveyourteam #leadershipdevelopment

Let’s get quizzical! 🧠 It’s #NationalTriviaDay and what better way to celebrate than with a quiz? Watch this video to test your Grainger knowledge and check out our company snapshot to learn more facts: https://lnkd.in/gD6qRxky #TeamGrainger