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Get Real TED: Leading with Authenticity
As an executive coach, I’ve watched my fair share of TED Talks. Have you ever noticed how integral the audience’s reactions are to creating the whole TED Talk ambiance? TED Talkers must rehearse for hours on end to trigger those perfectly spaced responses from the audience. All the laughs, oh’s and ah’s emanating from the...
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3 Questions to Ask Before Speaking Up
The art of speaking up is a skill that a lot of executives struggle to master in ordinary times, let alone when everyone is trying to adapt to the cultural mores of videoconference calls. Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong group of people can carry heady consequences for executives. Fear of how others...
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7 Practices of Compassionate Leaders
Why do some leaders seem to possess a natural knack for putting people at ease in unsettling times? When everything is up in the air, leaders who excel in a crisis use compassion as a grounding force and guiding light. Compassionate leaders have high emotional intelligence and display a combination of empathy, integrity, forgiveness, kindness...
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facing retirement
Ten thousand baby-boomers reach 65 years of age every day, a numeral that makes you ‘of retirement age.’  You hear this startling fact every few minutes on prime time television.  AARP is all over this.  But who among you thought this time would arrive so abruptly, a phase of life we associate more with our...
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Those of you who read my blogs know I write often about the human aspects of IT project failures and the lack of open discussion between technologists and their business colleagues.  Well, here comes some more evidence. Information Week published an article entitled “Heroes Wanted,”  which is about the unfortunate lack of technological innovation at...
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Reid Hastie, a professor at the University of Chicago (must admit, my MBA alma mater) in behavioral science, wrote that “We know there was no single cause or event that set in motion the [financial] crisis and that the truth is complex and multicausal.  So why do we keep seeking easy answers?  It may be...
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Coaching Perfectionists
Coaching Perfectionists Several years ago I wrote about what I learned from Daniel Goleman (who famously relates emotional intelligence with an ability to lead) and Dan Siegel, MD, when I attended Harvard’s Institute of Coaching Professional Association conference.  I went on to tell you about some other news for coaches from Harvard’s Medical School, specifically coaching perfectionists, from...
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cycle of renewal
One of my coaching engagements has led me to learn a theory which is known to many but is new to me.  It is The Cycle of Renewal and was developed by the Hudson Institute.  Renewal is the reverse of burnout.  It is about deliberate rehabilitation for finding what you want to achieve because it...
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Have you ever thought about walking on hot coals and what would happen to your feet?  I always thought not getting burned was a trick.  But it seems some people gave it a shot last month in San Jose, California, and they got burned.  Are we surprised? In the New York Times of August 4th,...
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What a breath of fresh air in “IT Careers:  Do You Need an Executive Coach?” by Mary Pratt in the July 26th issue of CIO.com.  Clearly, the answer is yes; everyone needs a coach (see video of Eric Schmidt and a New Yorker article by surgeon Atul Gawande).  In fact, Ms. Pratt’s article begins with...
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