As many of you know, I often learn more from clients than I give. The model below is one such insight. It has become a mainstay of the advice I give today’s leaders about their role in keeping meetings smart, fast and effective. IF you want to run great meetings,
If you’ve done it for 10 years, you need to make a change. If you’ve been doing more or less the same thing for 6 to 10 years or more, you are probably feeling stuck, irritable, negative and a little bored. You may have a sense of quiet excitement about
All of us sometimes get so angry or frustrated or anxious or otherwise emotionally out of whack that we can’t seem to focus on anything else. Here is a relatively quick way to deal with such situations. It’s called FEMA, appropriately enough, like the Federal Emergency Management Administration. FEMA is
Sometimes when you ask a question, you know an honest answer might be tough for somebody to give. Perhaps it’ll be embarrassing for one or both of you, or critical, or not politically correct. You worry that, to avoid awkwardness, they may not give you the full truth. Plenty of
Many of us have had the experience of working longer and harder than others and performing our responsibilities exceptionally well, only to be given the equivalent of a B on our annual review. Or, equally frustrating, we’ve tried to get an exceptional subordinate or colleague promoted only to have others
I’ve been an executive coach for more than thirty years, first as a professor in the Business School at Georgetown University, later as head of the U.S. arm of an international consulting firm focused on executive development, and later still as an SVP of a large national organization specializing in senior executive career transition and coaching.
As an executive coach, I’ve worked with hundreds of great and not-so-great leaders — and I’ve learned from every one of them. Though they were sometimes disagreeable, politically inept, manipulative, inarticulate, venal, and not able to differentiate shit from Shinola (that’s shoe polish for those of you born in the last fifty years), they had somehow achieved seniority and success.