Executive Coaching Blog: Collaboration @ Work
Straight talk on collaboration, change, motivation, and managing for results, for busy VPs, Directors, and Managers who would rather think it through than go it alone.
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Redefining Success: Finding Balance in Ambition
The content discusses the detrimental effects of an achievement-oriented mindset, referred to as the “striver’s curse.” It highlights the addiction to success and the enmeshment of personal identity…
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The Leader Has No Clothes: An Old Myth With Modern Applications
Why Leader-Centrism Leaves Organizations Naked and Exposed Once upon a time, in a kingdom that looked a lot like a Fortune 500 company, the Great Leader loved being…
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How Complex Organizations Change
Market factors, technological innovations, and competitive pressures create legitimate urgency for transformational change. Many executives respond by imposing rapid, top-down directives, convinced that competitive speed demands command-and-control execution.…
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Managing Accountability for Results
How do I manage to keep people accountable? Recently, I have been coaching several frustrated executives who are, in their words, “having a hard time holding my people…
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Would You Know Leadership If You Saw It? Most Likely Not!
Very few business people have any idea what the word leadership actually means or how to use it effectively to help their organization change. Sorry, leaders, you have…
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We Have Been Led Astray
What comes to mind when you think about what a leader does in business? Is leader just another word for a good manager? Does an effective, highly humane,…
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Relational Quality Control Is Good for Business
In today’s hypercompetitive business landscape, organizations often focus on optimizing processes, cutting costs, and leveraging technology—yet many overlook their most critical asset: human relationships. Poor workplace dynamics cost…
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How to Decide What to Do
“What am I going to do?” is a common question frustrated coaching clients ask. My go-to strategy is: You can feel stuck and indecisive because we tend to…
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Is Leadership What You Think It Is?
The late James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. wrote in his seminal 1978 book, Leadership, “If we know all too much about our leaders, we know far too little about leadership. We fail…
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A Ladder of Inference is Made of Values
How do we make sense? Researchers and scholars have been trying to understand how we make sense of our experiences for ages. Chris Argyris and Donald Schoen created…
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Warning: This is a POOPy Post on Doing Your Business
“If you want to be the boss, you must deal with a lot of sh#t!” said my usually reserved Dad, who was then President of Dix Enterprises, Inc.,…
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Leader Has Become Meaningless
Reading LinkedIn posts on #leader and #leadership has me frustrated,confused, and more than a little discouraged. Most people have no idea what the words leader and leadership mean.…
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