To the Boss: Is the Stress Epidemic Sapping Your Leadership Team Constant fire drills. 24 x 7 connectedness. Pressure to outperform just to stay even. I hear about these from direct reports with increasing frequency as they lament how much energy and mindshare are devoted to what may not, in the end, lead to success […]
Friday, January 4, 2013
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Author Junot Diaz, interviewed by Bill Moyers about the focus of his writing said he finds the silence in the community and then inhabits it, brings it to people’s attention, causes the conversation that should have taken place. The idea applies to leaders and, for people in my profession to be effective, to leadership coaches. […]
Saturday, December 8, 2012
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On today’s WSJ.com, Oliver Burkeman’s article The Power of Negative Thinking, there are assertions any leader should contemplate upon and decide what to adopt in their lives. The basic premise is that focusing on negative outcomes in thought and action can have beneficial effect. Negative thinking can take several flavors and I subscribe to some […]
Sunday, December 2, 2012
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Listening, active listening, is a topic that comes up often in my coaching session with leaders. Their instinct says this is a crucial skill and they know there are challenges, witting or unwitting: inhibiting pushback from others, being so smart and so quick that their mind is so far out in front they are not […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Sunday, January 6, 2013
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