If you read my newsletter or follow this blog, hopefully you know about our big Remarkable TV online event next week, Tuesday March 16th from 11 am – 3 pm ET. It is called Coach and Be Coached and is designed to help all of us reach higher levels of performance through, coaching and being [...]
The first thing I remember purchasing with my own money that I earned was a basketball.
As a boy, when I wasn’t working on the farm, often I was shooting baskets. While my high school career stalled for a variety of reasons (being small, 5′9″, and having mononucleosis as a sophomore didn’t help!), I’ve always loved [...]
It’s been the second biggest news story of the week – and if not for the horrific disaster in Haiti, it would have been #1. After 47 years in the hands of a Democrat, the Massachusetts Senate seat of deceased Edward Kennedy will now be occupied by a Republican.
This article isn’t about political posturing, ads [...]
I read something recently that me thinking about a challenge you may have as a leader that you haven’t even thought about, at least not recently.
I talk about it on this video – created with my Livescribe pen. I hope you will watch, listen, and learn.
Then I hope you will give me some feedback on [...]
In my friend Jon Gordon’s most recent book, The Shark and the Goldfish , the hero of the story learns an important lesson:
Don’t Settle.
This lesson struck me as I read this book this week. Don’t settle. I thought about the parts of my life where I am settling.
Beyond me though, I believe that most of us [...]
Perhaps I should keep this post short. If we all read and took action on the three word title of this post, we would all be more effective starting today and forever.
I was reminded to share this key leadership skill with you today because of the quotation I shared in our Powerquotes Plus newsletter yesterday.
“It [...]
Recent research on why leaders use executive coaching is instructive for all of us. the research, cited here, includes the following reasons:
1. Sharpening the leadership skills of high potential individuals
2. Correcting leadership skill gaps
3. Improving success rate, or reducing risk of failure of new leaders
4. Correcting employee relations problems
5. Providing leadership skills to those who [...]