What Do the CEO Coach and the CEO Have In Common? BACKGROUND Exceptional leaders are good at active listening: extracting the essence of someone else’s predicament or point of view or proposal. The coach must be even a more active listener to get at the root cause of whatever the client is confronting. In recent […]
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
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SELF-DOUBT OF leaders has been among the top issues in my career as a coach to CEOs. One of the key learnings from interviewing three dozen CEOs in 2007 was the extent to which they worked on overcoming self-doubt and how they did it. In fact, I wrote a book about it: what made jack […]
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
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These are my notes for an internet radio conversation this morning with Jim Blasingame, The Small Business Advocate, who is a treasure trove of advice for business owners. THE CHALLENGE Leaders often fear replacing people they know in their hearts must go. SITUATIONS I have been CEO coach in more than a few such situations. […]
Thursday, June 11, 2015
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GOOD CEOS ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS…DO YOU? THE BOTTOM LINE Questions can be more important than answers. Good CEOs know this. Among the questions: “What don’t I know that could kill me?” And “Am I pushing too hard or not hard enough?” BUILT INTO MUSCLE MEMORY It is NOT that they do it every […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
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