Neal Woodson

Neal Woodson (@ndubbs) THE En.Dubbs LETTER 11/21/25 The Wisdom of Gratitude      It is at this time of year that many of us take time to think about what we have, what we don’t have, what successes we’ve enjoyed, and what...

This week’s newsletter is, appropriately, centered on gratitude. Take a look.
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#thanksgiving #gratitude

5 Leadership Skills That Will Define Executive Success In 2025 A new set of leadership skills will be required in 2025. Ambitious leaders and thoughtful executives should focus on these five leadership capabilities in the new year.

If you’re not thinking about these five leadership tools, start.
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The pursuit of worthwhile, meaningful work that creates value for the world rather than just our own interests is where we find the best of our humanity.
#humanexperience #peoplefirst

What people get wrong about college is what they get wrong about training at work. “[People] must be taught how to think, not what to think.” -Margaret Mead Let’s clear up one misconception right here. College is not for teaching people how to do a job. It may teach some skills o…

What people get wrong about college is what they get wrong about training at work. 
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#training #learning

When you put the needs of your audience or your customers first, you make magic.
#humanexperience #peoplefirst #customerexperience

Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its CEO's pay package is nearly $69M.

Imagine the difference if biz leaders actually cared about people.

What happened to the humans? If space aliens visited us thousands of years ago and returned today, I think one of their first thoughts would be, “What happened to the humans? They held such promise. They were so good at connec…

Our humanity has been used, forced into compliance, sold to, and bought—this has to change.
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#humanexperience #peoplefirst
#purposefullyhuman

The real meaning behind giving a $#!+ is about willingness. Willingness to sacrifice and be inconvenienced by giving up time and personal pursuits to improve the lives of others.

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#givingashit #service #humanexperience

Neal Woodson (@ndubbs) THE En.Dubbs LETTER 11/14/25 What’s your end in mind?      I was once watching TV and I saw an ad for a bank consisting of short vignettes where customers and employees talk about why they like work...

It’s Friday and time for another newsletter. This week’s topic: Purpose. Check it.
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#newsletter #purpose

31 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Used 5 Simple Words to Explain What Great Leaders Do Best Steve Jobs’s timeless secret to leading brilliant people was counterintuitive, but it worked.

31 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Used 5 Simple Words to Explain What Great Leaders Do Best
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It’s not all about money. At the end of the day, it’s about people.
#peoplefirst #humanexperience

What happened to the humans? If space aliens visited us thousands of years ago and returned today, I think one of their first thoughts would be, “What happened to the humans? They held such promise. They were so good at connec…

If space aliens visited us thousands of years ago and returned today, I think one of their first thoughts would be, “What happened to the humans?”
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#humanexperience #peoplefirst
#purposefullyhuman

Fact: You cannot know customer problems without talking to customers and then going out and experiencing what they experience.
#customerexperience #serviceculture

We Need Problem-Solvers. Do You Have What It Takes? We have many big problems in this crazy world, and to solve them, we need two critical things: 1) a service-focused mindset, and 2) creativity.  Let’s look at these. A service-focused mindset …

Two things you should bring to the table to help solve big problems.
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#service #humanexperience

Neal Woodson (@ndubbs) THE En.Dubbs LETTER 11/7/25 Is Your Leadership Empowering Or Commanding?      Leaders should be guiding others to be better today than they were yesterday.  This ensures a team of people who are ful...

It’s Friday, newsletter day. This week’s topic: empowering vs commanding leadership.
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#newsletterfriday #newsletter #leadership

“This book presents a fundamental concept that should be considered the starting point for doing good business.” -Darren Boates

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#givingashit #service #humanexperience

Is our obsession with economic growth fuelling a global mental health crisis? In a 2024 report titled The Burnout Economy: Poverty and Mental Health, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter highlights a problem that is often ignored: our ca...

The obsession with economic growth. Could it be fuelling a global mental health crisis?
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#economics #humanexperience

Your life can be art … but to make it so, you have to think about what you’re doing and how you’re doing it.
#elevateyou #elevateyourwork
#humanexperience

We Need Problem-Solvers. Do You Have What It Takes? We have many big problems in this crazy world, and to solve them, we need two critical things: 1) a service-focused mindset, and 2) creativity.  Let’s look at these. A service-focused mindset …

The world needs problem solvers, do you have what it takes?
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#service #humanexperience

Music, art, dance, literature, theater—they define culture. They also define our humanity. They connect us because they are things every human has in common. And that connection has never been more needed.
#humanexperience #art #culture

The AI panacea …not. AI is taking away mindless jobs and giving people more time for living. Yeah, but … how will people live without work?  With every new “miracle” comes another problem. And, as usual, the peopl…

Is AI the panacea so many believe it will be? I think not.
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#ai #humanexperience

Episode 4 of the PurposeFully Human Radio Hour has dropped. On this program, our guest is David Wales, the founder of the PurposeFully Human community. Grab a cuppa something, sit back, and have a thought-provoking listen.
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Where do you invest your energies? Is it your family, your partner, your work, your net worth? Whatever it is, that’s a pretty good indicator of what you love most. Think hard about this and do an about face if you must.
#purpose #love #service

Neal Woodson (@ndubbs) THE En.Dubbs LETTER 10/31/25 Self-interested leadership. Is that what we want?      Some people step into leadership roles out of a sense of mission and service to others, yet some seek leadership t...

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What Classic Literature & AI Have in Common If you’ve ever tried reading an old classic written before the printing press was invented in the 15th Century, say, Homer or Milton, you may have noticed

When we outsource our thinking to automation, we can dim our ability to spot nuance.
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#ai #humanexperience

BOOK REVIEW: Question to Learn by Joe Lalley While most people believe they’re asking questions effectively, Joe Lalley, in his book Question to Learn, tells us that the true power of questions lies not only in the questions themselves …

Can learning how to ask good questions improve your work and help your career? Well, according to Joe Lalley, there is power in curiosity and he’s written a new book about it. Here’s a review.
#curiosity #bookreview #questiontolearn

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Telling employees to leave their emotions at the door is nonsense. Humans are beings, not machines.
#humanexperience #emotions

The AI panacea …not. AI is taking away mindless jobs and giving people more time for living. Yeah, but … how will people live without work?  With every new “miracle” comes another problem. And, as usual, the peopl…

The AI panacea …not.
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#ai #humanexperience

We are here for each other, to help each other, to live, love, work, laugh, and grow together. No one is an island. In this age of technology, we must be vigilant to not forgo our humanity in favor of convenience.
#purpose #love #service

The power of “good morning.” It’s not just something nice or something right to do; it’s a necessary part of strategy.  Relationships are everything in business. Every customer, employee, investor, and supplier is a perso…

Can “good morning” be a strategic move?
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#humanexperience #strategy