Archive for 2019

Leadership Effectiveness: Banish Divisiveness

Leadership Effectiveness: Banish Divisiveness

Ten executives were meeting in a board room. I was there with a team of nine white men and one black man, whom everyone called “Preacher.” Some might say this was a racist designation; others […]

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Executive Vitality™: It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning Your Retirement

Executive Vitality™: It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning Your Retirement

While some of you may tune out and turn off when you see the word “retirement,” I’d like you to take a breath and consider the objective laid out in this edition of Breakaway Performance/Executive […]

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Executive Vitality™: End the Scourge

Executive Vitality™: End the Scourge

Women (and men) do not need to tolerate harassment. The experience is unique to the individual experiencing it. Whereas both genders experience sexual harassment, women do so more prevalently, so this article focuses on that […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Teacher’s Pet Versus Thorn in Your Side

Leadership Effectiveness: Teacher’s Pet Versus Thorn in Your Side

Imagine you are one of the several senior executives we have coached who has an employee who gazes at them with admiring eyes, who wants to be their best friend, shadow, A-student, constant companion, and […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: The Courageous Choice

Leadership Effectiveness: The Courageous Choice

Essential to leadership is having an ethical bright line—an integrity boundary—a line we won’t cross when asked to do something, or when observing something we perceive to be illegal or unethical. Yet, history and current […]

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Executive Vitality™: Accept the Setback

Executive Vitality™: Accept the Setback

Have you ever fought nature after a setback? Who won? What could you have done better? Let’s use physical activity as an example of where a setback can occur. There are many reasons that athletic […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Resisting the Imperatives

Leadership Effectiveness: Resisting the Imperatives

Why do we resist the things we need the most? What do we get out of holding onto old patterns? As leader, you likely encounter resistance – yours and your team’s – on a frequent […]

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Executive Vitality™: Surviving a Lighter Work Schedule

Executive Vitality™: Surviving a Lighter Work Schedule

There are a lot of reasons that your work schedule, now or in the future, may be lighter than it was in the past. You may have reached the stage in your life when you […]

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Leadership Effectiveness: Decency Quotient

Leadership Effectiveness: Decency Quotient

Consider two leaders we know. We will call one Rick and the other, Alan. Rick is tough, driven, and results-oriented. He is compassionate, ethical, inclusive, calm, composed, and fair. Morale and loyalty are high in […]

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Executive Vitality™: Re-Entry

Executive Vitality™: Re-Entry

I am just back from vacation. I found a big bin of snail mail, a zillion emails at home, and my inbox at work was bursting. My time zone was somewhere I was not. The […]

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