CEO As Coach? Ways to Win. Pia Sundhage may be a sports coach (U.S. Women’s Soccer), but she shows more savvy than many a CEO. Can you identify the top 7 leadership techniques that Pia used to turnaround a failing and dysfnctional U.S. women’s soccer tem, taking their performance and spirit up a couple of […]
Monday, July 11, 2011
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Leadership Blues Revisited A colleague with my Vistage International (CEO membership) organization noted last week that more than a few CEOs with whom she had recently spoken revealed malaise with their lives. They are no longer as passionate, as committed to all-out success as once they were. As a result, they are not as highly […]
Monday, March 7, 2011
Most entrepreneurs are proud of decision-making by intuition. Some are more “plan-ful” than others. It gave me to wondering how to think about this. Jonah Lehrer’s book: “How We Decide” is a great read. It reinforces the idea that intuition is often based on real data available only in our subconscious. We over-think and go […]
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Job Interview Past blogs have focused on experiences that provide insights into leadership. This one is about a job-seeker who demonstrated both being authentic and being “good on his feet (one of the archetypal shaping experiences in my book).” Interviewing for a position in an operating company with the CFO, the job-seeker knew that two […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Saturday, July 16, 2011
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