A growing number of my leadership clients struggle to focus on their daily agenda in the face of distractions. Email, texts, phones and walk-ins too often drive their attention from where it is really needed (according to them!). I’ve already posted about two terrific articles that show that we lose will power after a series […]
Thursday, June 9, 2011
What goes on inside the head of the CEO? I have often said to C-suite denizens that 15 minutes inside the head would make most of them freak out. Intimate conversations reveal a kaleidoscope of simultaneous thoughts about people, strategies, deals, upcoming events, problem-solving, overdue initiatives, financing, short term earnings, current cash flow, family matters […]
Saturday, February 19, 2011
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In a conversation this week, I relayed to a coaching client my repeated experience of learning the most amazing things in the last 90 seconds of any meeting. He suggested I share this. I had just become a Principal of a consulting firm whose senior partners included a former partner of Booz Allen & Hamilton […]
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
You may or may not be a Steve Jobs fan because of some of his personal history. But what he has done with Apple after returning to the fold is simply amazing. And he has an understandably large following of employees and customers. What happened? Randall Stross has captured the answer in his article: What […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Monday, September 5, 2011
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