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I recently wrote about an experience with my 98-year old mother that touched me deeply.
I know how lucky I am to have had her for so long. She has been a teacher and a role model for me for decades a...
Richard Levi had a powerful influence on me early in my coaching journey. He died recently and his passing is a loss to me and the entire coaching community he was a pillar of. These three stories are...
There is a well-known Zen story about a rather non-conventional response to impending doom.
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he...
One of my favorite Warren Buffett quotes is "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked."
It is of course a reference to investors who get over leveraged or are not diver...
his is the long version of this post complete with data, academic references, and disclaimers. The short version can be found here.
The Enneagram Personality Typing system is showing up more often in...
When individuals, teams, and entire organizations lose their moorings, the need for focus and leadership is greater than ever. Â This Covid-19 crisis is clearly one of those times.
So what can you do ...
Coaching continues to increase in popularity in corporations. Â There are multiple reasons, but the bottom line is that there continues to be a big need for skill development for people in leadership p...
Values-based interviewing suddenly seems all the rage.
The idea here is that you ask questions around important personal values that will contribute to success on the job or that are aligned with the...
I wrote about the Taoist Farmer story in another post Schrodinger's Cat and the Value of Uncertainty in a Continuously Connected World, but as I continue to work on myself, it reveals new layers of me...
In his autobiography, Miles Davis, the world renowned jazz trumpeter and band leader, claims to have changed…not just his style, but all of music six times. A bold claim to be sure, but many jazz mu
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Almost 25 years ago, one of the best-selling management books of all time was released: Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline. I know I was in the minority, but to be honest, I was not a big fan of the
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I am a bit of a logophile. I subscribe to dictionary.com’s Word of the Day because I really enjoy it when I can capture the essence of something with a single word.
That happened for me the other day...
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