by admin | Nov 5, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
As a leadership consultant, I’ve made a career of helping executives heal the wounds they’ve inflicted, and mend the trust they’ve broken with their anger. I’ve seen uncontrolled anger ruin careers, and I know this to be a major derailment factor for senior...
by admin | Sep 25, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
My dear colleague Sheila approached as I sat in the back of the training room and asked, “Why do you look like you just ate a grapefruit?” It’s true I was disappointed that her debrief of the activity she had just led didn’t seem to go...
by admin | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
On a recent flight to New York I sat beside an energetic operations manager for a small bank. Hearing that I was a leadership consultant, he looked interested and started talking. “‘My problem,” he announced without my asking, “is that I have...
by admin | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
I love the irony: Sometimes it’s the leaders who complain the loudest about frivolous spending who unknowingly add the most cost to the bottom line. Years ago I learned of a great example at a southern retailer. When its elderly (and miserly) chairman walked...
by admin | Jul 9, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Influencing, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
In a freak accident eight weeks ago, I was hit by a truck and pinned against a highway guardrail. The impact broke my femur in half and fractured my knee. Wheel chair bound for four weeks, I’m now halfway through a 6-month recovery period. Needless to say,...
by admin | May 20, 2013 | Blog (All Categories), Executive Coaching, Leadership Skills
I have a leadership-coaching client who engenders well-earned loyalty from his people. Equal part strategic and operational, tough and tender, he defines his role as building and leading highly effective teams. Hell, even I’d work for him, despite my 15 years of...
