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10 Questions Your Team Is Afraid to Ask

by Karin Hurt | Aug 6, 2014 | By Karin Hurt, Communication | 14 comments

Your team has questions they’re afraid to ask. They’ve got limited information, but they figure if you wanted to tell them you would. They worry that raising the issue will look like insubordination, or somehow make them look less in your eyes. Maybe you...

10 Ways Fear Slows Us Down

by Karin Hurt | Jan 8, 2013 | By Karin Hurt | 2 comments

Back in November, Dan Rockwell wrote 4 words that have stuck with me. “Fearful leaders need certainty.” Try walking around with that in your heart for a month or two and observe. Watch leaders you admire. Observe leaders you don’t. Consider how you...