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Server waiting tables | alviller.com
I Applied for a Demotion
What I gave up to do the work I wanted In February 2001, I applied for a job with a lower title than the one I already held. I was a product support manager at the...
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Built to Burnout | alviller.com
Built to Burn Out
What a 1925 lightbulb cartel and a 125-year-old bulb reveal about the light you leave behind Two days before Christmas in 1924, while the rest of Geneva strung up...
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Take the Reins | alviller.com
Take the Reins
What a stubborn horse taught me about leading people A horse knows what you’re feeling before you know it yourself. Pull the reins too tight and the animal...
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Busy leader setting the tone for the office | alviller.com
The Monday the Room Went Quiet
You’re setting the tone whether you mean to or not. Every leader leaves a wake. Few of us ever turn around to look at it. Jason Kaplan’s LinkedIn post, the...
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V-AL-UES | alviller.com
When “Values” Became V-AL-UES
The Exercise That Started It More than twenty years ago, I was drifting. On the surface, everything looked fine. Career moving forward, hitting my targets, earning...
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Lighthouse at night | alviller.com
Build the Lighthouse. Beam the Message.
Some messages arrive fully formed. Mine never do. It started as a line I wrote in service of someone else’s purpose. I was supporting employee and business...
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Thermostat on wall controlled by mobile device | alviller.com
Be the Thermostat, Not the Thermometer
As leaders, we set the emotional tone for our teams. Most of us never notice we’re doing it.   A reel in my social media feed asked a question that got me...
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Hero - Rigor & Radiance | alviller.com
Rigor and Radiance
The Two Sides of How a Leader Leads Lead with Light™ lives at the intersection of logic and light, competence and character, systems and soul. I call it rigor and...
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Clark High School JV Basketball team - 1976 | alviller.com
The Captain Who Wouldn't Let Me Fail
Typically, leadership shows up with a title attached. A captain’s armband, a corner office, a name on the door. We often wait to be named before we’ll...
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Al Viller - Perceptive and Principled Leader | Corporate Employee & Business Comms | Branding

About Me

Love learning new things...

This blog started out as a passion project. Creating it was something I always wanted to do but never made the time. Over the past few years, it evolved into an award-winning platform.

As a life-long learner, I’ve discovered many things about the world around me and myself. While I’m no expert, one of my superpowers is learning and leveraging technology to communicate with impact. But it’s really up to you to decide that.


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