I spent the Sunday evening in Boston watching the New England Patriots defeat the Baltimore Ravens in a close contest which is sending Tom Brady and Bill Belichick to the Super Bowl for the fifth time in ten years, an incredible feat. I admit, I don’t see half the things that happen on the field that a true football intellectual would see, but I do have an eye for what makes a successful organization.
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Why take a path to mediocrity when you can take a path to greatness? I have been reflecting lately on how much of the coaching work I do with business leaders is about helping people climb the ladder to becoming CEO and achieving stellar levels of compensation. This is all well and good, but there is a discrepancy between this and the heart of Masterful Coaching, which is about helping leaders do something to make a difference in their worlds.
Read more →A Voyeur Catches Unguarded Moments on Boston’s Huntington Ave
Growing up in Boston, I often visited Huntington Avenue around Symphony Hall where the father of my friend Kenny had a guitar and drum shop. He would sometimes take us to Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music, revered by musicians worldwide for its superior acoustics, to hear a jazz ensemble. Yesterday, I visited a blockbuster exhibit at the MFA (Boston art museum) called “Degas and the Nude”. The gloves, or in this case, the tutus of Degas’ ballerinas are off at the new exhibit. Degas and the Nude reveals a more candid, dramatic theme: the beauty of unguarded moments.
Read more →“We Need an Election.” No! We Need Passion and Hustle
I recently returned from a trip to South Korea. Business friends have asked me “How was it? The trip itself went fine…a keynote speech, CEO luncheon, Masterful Coaching Workshop. I noticed about Korea however is that everyone seemed to have so much passion and hustle compared to the people I meet in the USA.
Even though the Korean economy is down right now, everyone seemed to be hustling
Read more →Leading the Revolution: From Management to Coaching
How to create an organization that is both fit for the future and fit for human beings.
Gary Hamel in his book, “Leading the Management Revolution,” says that today we need organizations that are not only fit for the future, but fit for human beings. Today, according to a huge study by the George Gallup 30 to 40 percent of the USA workforce is “disengaged,”
Read more →Big Co CEO Read My Tips and Closes $Billion Deal
Two weeks ago, I posted a blog intended for executives called Ten Tips for Doing Business in China. I got a phone call from a CEO (who I will call Hal) after posting this, who said he was off to China to pull off a major billion dollar deal, and he told me that he had read the tips in my blog and wanted to discuss them a bit further
Read more →10 Tips for Doing Business in China
I offer these tips for leaders who want to do business in China.
1. The Chinese are an intensely patriotic race. Use praise. No disparaging remarks. Not even mild jokes.
2. Exchange gifts. It cements relationships. Don’t just accept gifts, take gifts to give and wrap them. Cash gifts are standard practice in China.
Read more →10 Tips from a Masterful Coach
I am learning about social medial. The following blog is based on ten tweets I left on Twitter in the last week. They are powerful, profound, and very useful to anyone interested in coaching, leadership transformation, or creating high performance organizations.
MASTERFUL COACHING TIP # 1 Coaching takes place in the domain of accomplishment, not therapy.
Read more →To Differentiate Your Company, Keep It Real, Very Real
Knowing yourself, passionate entrepreneurship, personal branding, word of mouth have all been key to every successful business in history. As Andre Gide once said, “The more things change the more they stay the same.”
Social networking has changed the game by giving entrepreneurs a reason to get rid of the worn-out, burnt-out, expensive advertising and media platforms of the past so as to be able to open up markets
Read more →Who is Your Ideal Coaching Client?
In the past few days, I have been thinking about who I want to work with for the next few years where there is high market potential. Let me share a few thoughts with you, and would love to hear your thoughts on the subject. Some are presidents of countries or company executives in their first 100 days. Other are…
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