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July 26, 2010 Fortune Magazine. Two small little snippets on page 20 should cause alarm bells for many. Fact 1: 39% of large company CEO’s and directors say they have zero real internal CEO candidates. Fact 2: The average number of hours boards spend on succession planning? Two. Do you see yourself or your company [...]
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Ask ten people to describe the best coaches they have experienced and chances are seven or more will mention support in some way. Underline and highlight that fact in your personal thinking about coaching. The best coaches are supportive. Knowing and agreeing with that idea is one thing. Knowing what that means and being able [...]
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I know, you may be thinking, “there is just one leadership problem with email?” While there may be more than one, I started thinking about one in particular this morning when I read a blog post titled I Don’t Know If I Want Email in my Company. While I hope you read that post, here is the [...]
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In today’s issue of our Powerquotes Plus newsletter I shared this quote from B.C. Forbes, the founder and publisher of Forbes Magazine: “Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.” As a leader we must be in the opportunity business. What are the opportunities to heklp [...]
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These observations come from MSNBC’s online story about the exclusive interview President Obama had with Matt Lauer (that aired this morning). Here is a link to the full story. The story’s headline, and lead comment is, “I would have fired the BP chief by now”, Obama says. This headline certainly works journalistically (and it got [...]
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Shinichi Suzuki, the Japanese violinist and teacher responsible for the Suzuki method of teaching young violinists once said, “Man is a child of his environment.” This quotation crossed my mind as I stood outside the boyhood home of Elvis Presley in Tupelo, Mississippi last week. He lived in this two room house with his parents until [...]
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Warning: This post opens with a words from a proud parent. Promise: The post ends with an important urging and reminder for all of us. Last night my son Parker directed the first performance of his one act play, Mr. Feather. He wrote, cast, produced and directed this play. It was fabulous! His was one of 7 “Final [...]
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I just read this quotation and it strikes me as so very powerful. “Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.” – Paul Leonard Newman (1925-2008) Aren’t you glad someone invited Paul Newman to a drama class? But more importantly to you [...]
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Last week during our Coach and Be Coached Event on Remarkable TV, we had over a dozen leadership and coaching experts talking about the skills of coaching and the importance of being coached. As I reflected on the lessons I heard from these experts three things came back to me time and time again. As [...]
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I’ve spent some time thinking about the importance of reflection this week, not because it is a new value or idea, but because of all the lessons we received from the Remarkable TV event this week. When we have “big” events in our lives, most of us naturally reflect, if only a little bit, on [...]
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