by admin | May 12, 2014 | Blog (All Categories), Coaching skills, Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
I was recently exploring a new coaching relationship with a high achieving, successful executive. Paul insisted that he wanted to ‘bring his game to another level’ and thought I might be a catalyst for his professional development. As I listened to his background and...
by admin | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog (All Categories), Latest Updates, Leadership Skills, Leading Change, Organizational Change
In the historical, yet fictional movie The Mutiny on the Bounty Spencer Christian and crew cast out the autocratic Captain Bligh and commandeered the ship. Bligh is then punished for his appalling leadership while Christian and his cronies end their days cavorting...
by admin | Jan 31, 2014 | Blog (All Categories), Collaborating, Facilitation, Leadership Skills
In a PBS interview, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock described the magic of collaboration as he learned it in his twenties while travelling with improvisational genius Miles Davis. During one performance, Hancock remembered feeling a unique connection with the band, the...
by admin | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog (All Categories), Conflict, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
As the saying goes, ‘trust is earned by the penny, but spent by the dollar.’ In other words, while trust is constructed through countless transactions, it can be shattered with only one negative interaction. Even an inadvertent betrayal of trust can wipe...
by admin | Jan 2, 2014 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Skills
A recent article in the Times suggested that Americans’ mistrust of each other has reached an all time high — that we live in an era of unprecedented cynicism. Maybe so. But we submit that this generalization obscures a more meaningful truth — there...
by admin | Dec 6, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Skills
I love Thanksgiving. But I wonder why so many of us wait for the third Thursday of November to express gratitude. God must surely end the day exhausted by the millions of people giving ‘thanks’ because the day requires it. When one institutionalizes...
