Archive for 2017

Leadership Effectiveness: Dig Deep—Don’t Be Fooled By Appearances

Leadership Effectiveness: Dig Deep—Don’t Be Fooled By Appearances

In my personal experience as well as my experience as an executive coach of top leaders of highly successful organizations, I have seen how often we humans make mistakes assessing people based on outward appearance. […]

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Executive Vitality™: Are You Working Too Hard?

Executive Vitality™: Are You Working Too Hard?

As an executive coach who works with high-powered, hard-working, goal-oriented senior leaders, I very often suggest that they reserve white space on their calendars. One reason is to improve results; the other is to preserve/improve […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Serving Values to Your Customers

Leadership Effectiveness: Serving Values to Your Customers

Last month I spoke about how a senior leader can ensure that their organization’s values are more than words on the page and actually drive behavior from the most senior executive to the most junior […]

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Executive Vitality™: Take a Deep Breath

Executive Vitality™: Take a Deep Breath

For years, executive leaders have been told that meditation and mindfulness are the keys—not to just our health—but also to focused and creative leadership. We have heard this message from McKinsey, NYU’s Stern School of […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: When a Company Needs to Live Its Values (Always!)

Leadership Effectiveness: When a Company Needs to Live Its Values (Always!)

Core Values – what are they? Why do they matter? Do you know what yours are? Do you know what your company’s are? We know that conscious, consistent communication, commitment, and accountability for core values […]

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Executive Vitality™: Be a Volunteer

Executive Vitality™: Be a Volunteer

Benefits of Volunteering – With increased volunteering: Volunteer. I know – you are thinking that you and your senior leader peers are almost incomprehensibly busy. However, we also all know down deep that some activities […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Do your actions match your words?

Leadership Effectiveness: Do your actions match your words?

Actions speak louder than words. As a leader, what you do has significantly more impact than what you say you are going to do. We all know this from our own experience. We have seen […]

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Executive Vitality™: Laughter is the Best Medicine

Executive Vitality™: Laughter is the Best Medicine

Have a laugh. Sometimes we take our work — and ourselves — just too darn seriously. Have a laugh. You will see how good that can make you feel even, and perhaps especially, if you […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Dissent is an Obligation

Leadership Effectiveness: Dissent is an Obligation

It took 583 deaths in the 1977 Tenerife air disaster where KLM and Pan Am 747s collided to change the airline culture of “don’t question the pilot” (Deadliest plane crash in history.) An element of […]

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Executive Vitality™: Responding Not Reacting

Executive Vitality™: Responding Not Reacting

We have all had experiences where our leader, boss, or senior management team has done something or said something that triggers anger in us and causes us to want to “act out” – maybe even […]

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