New Year’s Resolutions are often not bold declarations of our intent to realize an Impossible Future in the coming year, but good intentions, most of which are soon forgotten after the holiday period. But what if you turned that around 180 degrees?
Read more →Posts tagged: impossible future
What’s Masterful Coaching? Watch Rocky II, Invictus, Pride, Hoosiers, Chariots of Fire, The Miracle, Karate Kid
Who doesn’t like a good sports movie? You know, the kind that makes you want to stand up and cheer for the athletes and teams who overcome huge challenges to win the championship and learn important lessons along the way.
Sports is a great way for people who are fascinated and intrigue by idea of Masterful Coaching to get a handle on what it’s all about.
Read more →Executive Coaching Acid Test…Picking the Right Coachees to Work With
As you may have picked up on from my blogs, I have been having a lot of fun working with people in the Masterful Coaching Certification process. Programs at the Pentagon and at my country house in Waltham Massachusetts have been both impactful and enjoyable.Following the last session, I received an email from one of the participants from a Big Co. His email and my response might give you an idea of what happens in the coaching part of the program.
Read more →A World Without War
Several months have gone by since I have written here and I’d like to tell you about what I’ve been up to. In the late summer, I began working with someone who I believe has the potential to be an extraordinary leader. I am speaking of Reilly Finn, the VP of Corporate Communications for a Tier 1 Defense Company. I started executive coaching with her on her first 100 days in her new job with a mandate from her boss to make “Comms” a more strategic organization. I asked Reilly what her Impossible Future was. Her response: A world without war!
Read more →Leon Powe Once Homeless Now an NBA Champ
The Boston Celtics are in the NBA Finals for the first time in 20 years. One of the people making an impact in the series is Leon Powe, whose father left home before the age of seven and whose family became homeless the same year when a fire burned their house down. Powe, the oldest of 7 children, spent a considerable amount of his childhood at the flea market helping his mother, Connie Landry, sell trinkets, toys, and used clothing from the back of a van. That was how the single mother supported the children after the fire and before Alameda County Child Protective Services placed Powe and his siblings in foster care.
Read more →Panama Fever: Epic Story of a Great Human Achievement
In researching my mentoring story about Ike, I read something in his memoir, At Ease, that captured my interest about the building of the Panama Canal. It turns out that the Canal Zone is one of the wettest regions in the world, where there are torrential downpours eight months out of the year, to the tune of three inches an hour. One day after Ike and Connor were inspecting the trails around the canal, they returned to find the entire army encampment, including Ike’s house, buried by a gigantic mud slide.
Read more →Masterful Coaching Tip: Plan for the Future, Play for Today
I think that perhaps the thorniest issue I have come across in executive coaching is not whether someone has a vision—“game plan”—but whether they can execute on that amid the pressure of doing their day job and delivering short-term results. I have found that it is very easy for an executive coach to get a decision maker excited about a new leadership roadmap or game-changing strategy, however, all too often, you discover when you check back a month later that nothing very much has happened.
Read more →
Visit us at
