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How HR Professionals Lose Their Lives Through Competency

By David Harder on the May, 10, 2017

It was 1990 and one of the nation’s largest banks was starting to fall apart. A rather visionary human resources executive came to one of our first programs to evaluate whether we could help their employees do more than simply transition into another job. Soon after her attendance, hundreds of […]


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Are We Preparing or Killing Our Children’s Future Careers?

By David Harder on the May, 9, 2017

How many career dinosaurs are being sent to college every year? I was giving a keynote speech entitled, The Art of Change. During the question and answer session, a rather dignified and well-dressed gentleman vigorously raised his hand. His body language seemed uncomfortable and angry. Of course, he was my […]


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The Wake-Up Call – Why Our Country Is At Each Other’s Throats

By David Harder on the May, 6, 2017

The turmoil that continues to roll through our country overlooks many of the truths that are enraging so many. Last November, I wrote an article that was a response to many of my friends being paralyzed by the results of the election and the observation that much of the problems […]


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Will You Ever Overcome Fear?

By David Harder on the May, 6, 2017

In a culture fixated on security, we have reinforced the myth that there is something fundamentally inadequate about us when we feel fear. If that is the case, we construct our lives around avoiding fear and as a result, the real and best opportunities don’t even reach our field of […]


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The Shame Game with Corporate Culture

By David Harder on the May, 4, 2017

If global workforce engagement is only 13%, odds are that a number of workers in your organization are in a trance. Odds are also high that a consultant is standing in front of you telling you it is the fault of your culture. The fundamental problem around all of this […]


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How Bias Got Burned Out of My Soul

By David Harder on the May, 2, 2017

When I began leading seminars I was a pile of bias, a judgment machine that ran without the benefit of truth. A bit of compassion might be in order, I had almost lost my life to differences and bias – several times – and had the deep wounds to prove […]


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Does an Engaged CEO Ask or Dictate?

By David Harder on the May, 1, 2017

For years, we have been giving customized 360s to CEOs and senior leadership. However, we don’t send out a consultant to gather feedback. The participating executive does that. Prior to designing customized interviews, we invest a great deal of time learning details about each significant stakeholder relationship and business issues. […]


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Do What You Were Born to Do

By David Harder on the April, 27, 2017

Ran into an old friend yesterday who asked, “Do you still lead those seminars?” and I responded, “More than ever.” He asked, “Who does anything for more than 25 years?” I laughed, “Those of us who find what we are born to do.” I walked into the first Inspired Work Program […]


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How One Boss Changed My Entire Life

By David Harder on the April, 19, 2017

Doing the right thing seems to be as much the product of instinct as intelligence.   Today, a dear friend and I are getting together with our former boss – Gail Angel. I have not seen her in twenty-three years! Gail owned one of the most successful staffing companies in […]


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Why is United Airlines Turning Into a Consumer Battlecry?

By David Harder on the April, 17, 2017

We watched the passenger being injured and dragged off the plane. The world rises in anger. Within hours, CNN’s Aviation Specialist Richard Quest cynically predicts consumers will be back “as if nothing happened” in a matter of days. The implication is that Americans want large quantities of cheap stuff and […]


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